German automotive supplier Continental AG has prohibited its workers from using the messenger services WhatsApp and Snapchat on party phones.
The firm said Tuesday that the ban, effective immediately, was put in transpire over concerns about the security of people’s data saved in the speak ti list of a phone or tablet.
“These services have deficiencies when it fall to data protection, as they access users’ personal and potentially intimate data such as contacts, and thus the information of third parties,” the companionship’s release said.
Europe’s new GDPR data privacy law was introduced on May 25 to grapple with how technology giants like Alphabet’s Google and Facebook gather and finger personal information.
Continental is concerned that it could be exposed to the new law as, in the German inelastic’s opinion, responsibility for compliance has been shifted towards app users. It prognosticated that to meet GDPR requirements, a user of the messenger platforms resolve have to contact everyone in their contact list.
“The risks this models in terms of data protection are not ones the company is willing to take,” it combined.
Describing data as an “obligation,” Continental CEO Dr. Elmar Degenhart called on tech firms to be conducive to it easier for users to comply with the new rules.
In response, Snap Inc pronounced Continental is wrong to suggest that GDPR shifts the compliance encumber on to an app user.
In an email to CNBC, the messaging service said it was “completely up to the alcohol whether they wish to grant access to contacts in Snapchat” and any uploaded observations can be deleted at any time.
Snap Inc added that it doesn’t store non-user telephones.