Facebook is near concurring an arrangement that would permit it to begin utilizing information accumulated from WhatsApp clients.
The social network organization purchased the messaging app for $19 billion in 2014, and at first asserted it would keep client data for the two administrations discrete.
In any case, Facebook backpedaled on its dedication a year ago by rolling out improvements to WhatsApp's security strategy and declaring its enormously disputable information sharing arrangements.
Helen Dixon, Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner and the lead EU controller on security issues for Facebook, has now said that she hopes a final agreement will be achieved this mid year.
"I think we are in concurrence with the gatherings – WhatsApp and Facebook – that the nature of the data given to clients could have been clearer, could have been more straightforward and could have been communicated in less difficult terms," she told Reuters.
"We are working towards an answer on that."
In spite of the fact that Facebook gave clients a constrained time to quit, doing as such before the due date just prevented WhatsApp from sending information to Facebook for "promotions and item encounters", and not various different agreements.
The information sharing arrangements were suspended in November, and the European Commission said Facebook "deliberately or carelessly" submitted "deluding data" in front of its WhatsApp takeover.
"We regard the Commission's procedure and are sure that a full audit of the certainties will affirm Facebook has acted in accordance with some basic honesty," was Facebook's reaction.