<h1>Data sharing restriction paused as appeal stays regulatory ban on WhatsApp-Meta advertising data practices pending review.</h1> An appellate body granted a partial stay on a five year prohibition preventing WhatsApp from sharing user data with other Meta entities for advertising, while it hears Meta's challenge to the regulator's finding that a privacy policy update enabled wide data collection and intra group sharing constituting abuse of a dominant position; the regulator had also imposed behavioural remedies and a monetary penalty and directed that data sharing for non service advertising not be a condition of access to WhatsApp services.