Critics say the law stifles dissent from Turks who resorted to online platforms after the government tightened its grip on mainstream media. Turkey's government has targeted social media companies with new restrictions and fines since it passed a law in July it says bolsters local oversight of foreign firms. Rival messaging apps Signal and Telegram have since seen a sudden increase in demand. The deadline for agreeing to the new terms is Feb. 6, allowing Facebook and its subsidiaries to collect user data.

WhatsApp updated its terms of service on Jan. Turkey's competition authority has opened an investigation into WhatsApp over a new update that requires users to share more data with its parent company, Facebook. 'The Competition Board has launched an investigation into Facebook and WhatsApp and suspended the requirement to share WhatsApp data,' it said.

In a written statement, the Competition Board said it ruled the data-collection requirement should be suspended until the probe is complete. Turkey's competition watchdog said Friday it was told by WhatsApp that the chat app won't apply a controversial privacy update following an investigation, but the announcement was contradicted by. The 1,950,000-lira (235,000, 200,000-euro) penalty was imposed after months of confusion over whether WhatsApp had introduced its controversial new data-sharing rules in Turkey. 11 it launched an investigation into WhatsApp and its owner Facebook Inc after the messaging app asked users to agree to let Facebook collect user data including phone numbers and locations. 3 joined a host of other countries in fining Facebooks ubiquitous WhatsApp messaging service for failing to sufficiently protect user data. The Turkish Competition Board said on Jan.

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