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01 The wind direction in Ireland changed, and WhatsApp was issued a fine
The amount of the fine was 255 million Euros, equivalent to approximately 1.952 billion RMB.
This is the first public result of the WhatsApp GDPR compliance survey conducted in December 2018. The survey mainly focuses on the following two aspects:
- whether WhatsApp has performed the necessary responsibilities of users strong2_span7span strong2_span7span strong2_span7span strong2_span7span
- WhatsApp and parent company Facebook share data ,Whether the necessary transparency responsibilities have been fulfilled.
The so-called transparency responsibility means that under the framework of GDPR, any company must clearly, openly and honestly inform everyone when processing personal information.
and non-user's transparency responsibility , for example, how WhatsApp handles the mobile phone number and other information of non-users when the user agrees to open the address book permission to WhatsApp.
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The European Union’s fines for technology giants are not new, but the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) ’s fines for technology giants are quite new.
For some well-known reasons, Ireland has been close to the American technology giants. We don’t know if it will end up in DPC investigations, but takes a long time and is light. Take care of is an accepted fact.
Before issuing a ticket to WhatsApp,The Irish DPC has only issued a fine to Twitter once in the history, and the amount was only 550,000 US dollars, which is equivalent to about 3.55 million RMB, which is 0.18% of the fine.
WhatsApp expressed dissatisfaction on two levels:
- the amount is not recognized;
WhatsApp said it would appeal.
02 French vegetable selling APP Cajoo received Carrefour A round of investment
Cajoo was established at the beginning of this year and currently operates in 10 cities in France. At present, there are more than 100,000 users, and it has established its place among competitors such as Getir, Gorrilas, Flink, and Zapp.
Cajoo may continue to stand out, it is the French supermarket giant Carrefour recently led a 40 million Euro A round of financing.
After financing, Cajoo will be able to use Carrefour’s own supply chain network,Provide users with more product choices.
How will this money be spent?
's first goal is to gain a dominant position in the French domestic market.
At the same time, the company is already focusing on the countries where can expand first: Belgium, Italy, Spain, and perhaps Portugal and Eastern European countries.
Of course the most important thing is the expansion of the team . The size of Cajoo's team is currently about 100 people, and it is expected to double by the end of this year. Among them, the size of the operation and delivery team may double by five times.
Even if it doubles five times, the capacity of the delivery team should not be able to keep up with the expanded business scale. Cajoo still has to rely on contract workers _strong7_strongspan5span and other delivery platforms. self-employed ,In other words, they will also face the same gig welfare disputes .
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03 The delivery service platform Borzo, which focuses on emerging markets, has also received a new round of investment
is currently headquartered in Russia. Amsterdam.
is different from others in the high customer unit price market. Borzo has focused on emerging markets: India, the Philippines, Russia, Vietnam, Brazil, Indonesia, Malaysia , Mexico, Turkey, and one of the richest South Korea.
From 2012 to now, after nearly 10 years of development, Borzo's number of users has reached 2 million, the number of orders per month is about 3 million, and the annual turnover has reached 150 million US dollars.
This C round of financing was led by Mubadala of UAE , with an amount of US$35 million.
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