Speaking at a digital, culture, media and sport select committee meeting on Tuesday morning, Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham told MPs that she is writing to WhatsApp to demand that the chat app does not hand user data to Facebook. WhatsApp committed in 2017 not to hand user information over to Facebook until it could prove doing so would respect the GDPR. In a Tech Crunch article, the ICO also spoke to MPs about the Audit Mark Zuckerberg promised to carry out at the Cambridge Analytica scandal's height. "It's part of an agreement that we struck with Facebook," she told the committee. "In terms of our litigation against Facebook. So there is an agreement that's not in the public domain and that's why I would prefer to discuss this in private."
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