{"id":987471,"date":"2026-01-24T08:48:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T03:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=987471"},"modified":"2026-01-24T09:29:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T03:59:32","slug":"uk-investigates-metas-compliance-with-whatsapp-data-requests-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/24\/uk-investigates-metas-compliance-with-whatsapp-data-requests-2\/","title":{"rendered":"UK investigates Meta&#8217;s compliance with WhatsApp data requests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British regulator Ofcom said on Friday \u2060it had opened an investigation into Meta \u200cPlatforms over \u200cthe information it \u200chad provided relating to WhatsApp for one of its market reviews.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last year, we carried out a \u200creview \u200dof the wholesale \u200dmarket for business bulk SMS \u200cmessages, which are often used for things like appointment reminders and parcel delivery notifications,&#8221; it \u200dsaid.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The available evidence suggests that \u200dthe \u2060information \u2060we received in response from Meta may not have been complete and accurate.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British regulator Ofcom said on Friday \u2060it had opened an investigation into Meta \u200cPlatforms over \u200cthe information it \u200chad provided relating to WhatsApp for one of its market reviews. &#8220;Last year, we carried out a \u200creview \u200dof the wholesale \u200dmarket for business bulk SMS \u200cmessages, which are often used for things like appointment reminders and parcel delivery notifications,&#8221; it \u200dsaid. &#8220;The available evidence suggests that \u200dthe \u2060information \u2060we received in response from Meta may not have been complete and accurate.&#8221;<\/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-987471","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\/987471","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=987471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}