Facebook Inc can’t share any contact data it gathers from WhatsApp clients with its different properties without first acquiring authorization from South Africa’s Information Regulator (IR), the office said on Wednesday.

In January, the Facebook-claimed informing stage WhatsApp educated clients it was setting up another security strategy, under which it could share some information, including area and telephone numbers, with Facebook and its different units like Instagram and Messenger.

The move has started reaction among clients in South Africa and somewhere else, and incited numerous to pick rival administrations like Signal or Telegram.

“WhatsApp can’t without getting earlier authorization from the IR interaction any contact data of its clients for a reason other than the one for which the number was explicitly planned at assortment, with the point of connecting that data mutually with data prepared by other Facebook organizations,” the controller said.

“WhatsApp can’t without acquiring earlier authorization from the IR interaction any contact data of its clients for a reason other than the one for which the number was explicitly proposed at assortment, with the point of connecting that data together with data handled by other Facebook organizations,” the controller said.

The regulator said its choice was as per segment 57 of the Protection of Personal Information Act, South Africa’s information insurance law.

The regulator said that it has kept in touch with Facebook South Africa and illustrated its interests in the organization’s security strategy.

The controller is likewise “exceptionally concerned” that residents of the European Union will get altogether higher security assurance than individuals in South Africa and Africa by and large.

“Our enactment is very much like that of the EU. It depended on that model purposely, as it gives an altogether better model to the insurance of individual data than that in different locales,” Chairperson of the IR Pansy Tlakula said.

“We don’t comprehend why Facebook has embraced this separation among Europe and Africa.”

Facebook South Africa was not promptly accessible for input, while questions shipped off Facebook were not quickly replied to.

The progressions to WhatsApp’s security strategy have gone under examination around the world, with Turkey’s opposition board dispatching an examination and a legitimate test recorded in India.

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