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If you're a WhatsApp user, you'll have to share your personal data with Facebook's empire from next month – or stop using the chat app

Henry Wertz 1 Gold badge

Yep

Well, given that Facebook bought them in 2014, and by 2016 had already been fined by UK and Germany (possibly among others) for slurping people's data*, not surprised at all. They really are just clarifying what they were already doing without properly disclosing it.

*Per the articles from 2016, they had a very well hidden, time-limited, one-time-use-only, opt-out, fined because of how hard it was to find and because in countries that care about privacy, slurping data from people that signed up for a service that didn't do it to begin with requires an opt-in not an opt-out.

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