Ever Since Facebook had acquired Whatsapp, it is sending data to Facebook for 3 mains purposes. Security, Advertising and improvement of services. France Govt had asked Whatsapp to send a sample data that it will send to Facebook.
Whatsapp had declined saying that Whatsapp is based on US and it can’t provide sample data.France Government had issued a notice to Whatsapp to stop collecting data from France users giving them a deadline of 1 month.
This is not first incident where a country had asked Whatsapp to stop collection data from Users. Germany and UK had also asked Whatsapp to stop collecting data.