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The European data protection authorities of the Article 29 Working Party published their joint Opinion 02/2013 on apps on smart devices on 14 March 2013.
The European data protection authorities of the Article 29
Working Party (WP29) published their joint Opinion 02/2013 on apps on smart devices on 14
March 2013. The Opinion comes one month after the Dutch Data
Protection Authority and the Canadian Office of the Privacy
Commissioner published the results of their collaborative
investigation into the processing of personal data by WhatsApp Inc.
Because of the data protection risks of mobile apps, their
widespread use, and their popularity among children, mobile apps
remain a priority for the European data protection authorities.
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