Irish Data Protection Commissioner Helen Dixon said her office's ruling on whether WhatsApp violated the EU General Data Protection Regulation will come next year, Fortune reports. The Irish Data Protection Commission was initially set to release its findings next month; however, the company's lawyers have filed a procedural complaint. “Some legitimate queries have been raised by [WhatsApp] during the decision-making phase … in terms of whether the interests of [WhatsApp] are protected in the process that we’re pursuing,” Dixon said. “We are therefore obliged to respond carefully to these queries.”
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