{"id":985216,"date":"2026-01-14T07:41:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T02:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=985216"},"modified":"2026-01-14T07:45:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T02:15:01","slug":"brazils-antitrust-body-opens-investigation-into-whatsapp-business-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/14\/brazils-antitrust-body-opens-investigation-into-whatsapp-business-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil&#8217;s antitrust body opens investigation into WhatsApp business tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brazilian antitrust body \u2060CADE said on Monday it had opened \u200can \u200cinvestigation into the new \u200cterms of Meta&#8217;s WhatsApp Business tool, adding it would also suspend the tool&#8217;s new \u200cterms \u200din Brazil \u200dwhile it evaluates the case. <\/p>\n<p>In \u200ca statement, CADE said that there are potential anti-competitive practices arising from \u200dthe new terms regarding \u200dthe access \u2060and \u2060offering by artificial intelligence tool providers of their technologies to WhatsApp users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazilian antitrust body \u2060CADE said on Monday it had opened \u200can \u200cinvestigation into the new \u200cterms of Meta&#8217;s WhatsApp Business tool, adding it would also suspend the tool&#8217;s new \u200cterms \u200din Brazil \u200dwhile it evaluates the case. In \u200ca statement, CADE said that there are potential anti-competitive practices arising from \u200dthe new terms regarding \u200dthe access \u2060and \u2060offering by artificial intelligence tool providers of their technologies to WhatsApp users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}