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The

Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC)

, the main regulator in the field of privacy in the European Union (EU), has reported this Thursday that it

has fined WhatsApp

Ireland

with 225 million euros for violating protection regulations of data.

This is the largest fine issued by the DPC and the second highest imposed in the community bloc, after the National Commission for Data Protection (CNPD) of Luxembourg sanctioned Amazon last July with 746 million euros.

Both fines are related to the breach of the European privacy regulations contained in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR, for its acronym in English).

The DPC's investigation into WhatsApp Ireland, which began three years ago, examined whether the messaging application, owned by the social network Facebook,

acted with transparency

when informing its users and non-users about compliance with the rules of the GDPR.

In this sense, the Irish commission analyzed whether WhatsApp offered transparent information about

its management of private user data in this application

and in other companies owned by Facebook, whose European base of operations is in Dublin.

WhatsApp Ireland issued a statement today in which it states that it does not agree with the DPC's decision and describes the fine as

"totally disproportionate"

, while confirming that it will appeal the sentence.

The Irish commission already presented a preliminary decision on this issue to several community regulatory bodies last December in which it imposed a

fine of 50 million euros

, but eight of these entities rejected the conclusions and asked to increase the amount.

The case was to stop the European Data Protection Committee (EDPB, its acronym in English), which ordered the DPC to increase the initial fine.

"In addition to the imposition of an administrative fine, the DPC has included a reprimand along with an order directed to WhatsApp to adapt its processes to the regulations by adopting several specific corrective measures," the commission explained in the statement of its sentence.

According to experts, the technology company can file an appeal with the Irish High Court or the European Court of Justice, where it will surely question the amount of the fine.

In accordance with Community regulations, the penalties in the event of non-compliance are a maximum of 20 million euros or up to 4% of the company's global turnover the previous year.

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