You don’t have to give us your name and we don’t ask for your email address.
true, but by having my phone number and my friends address book that lists my phone number, you in-fact have my phone number.
We don’t know your home address
You have my friends address book which has my address for my phone number and you have my phone number. So. No. You do in-fact have my home address.
We don’t know where you work
See above
or collect your GPS location
that's what you say, but you really have my GPS location, at least to some degree as sharing my location is one of the features in WhatsApp I used at times.
None of that data has ever been collected and stored by WhatsApp, and we really have no plans to change that.
While I believe you that you so far haven't collected anything, there's nothing to stop your new owners from collecting the data.
This post is complete nonsense and I'm just ever so happy that I have deleted my account the moment the sale went public. Considering the fact that my GF was able to send messages to my account despite myself having deleted it, I doubt that anything was really deleted though. So thanks.
The post didn't ease my concerns either. To further extend your last point, I don't understand why FB would spend so much acquiring whataspp if they didn't plan to mine the data. I told my friends to expect targeted FB ads based on our whatsapp convos in the future.
95% of WhatApp's messages don't event hit a disk and are served from memory. It would take big architectural changes to be able to mine them. (info from the erlang factory slides)
That's an interesting stat. How do you think FB will get an ROI on the 19B ?
EDIT: Also, do you think FB would/could man-in-the-middle the traffic a la NSA? No architectural changes to whatsapp are needed. FB could save and fwd the traffic. Crunch later.
true, but by having my phone number and my friends address book that lists my phone number, you in-fact have my phone number.
We don’t know your home address
You have my friends address book which has my address for my phone number and you have my phone number. So. No. You do in-fact have my home address.
We don’t know where you work
See above
or collect your GPS location
that's what you say, but you really have my GPS location, at least to some degree as sharing my location is one of the features in WhatsApp I used at times.
None of that data has ever been collected and stored by WhatsApp, and we really have no plans to change that.
While I believe you that you so far haven't collected anything, there's nothing to stop your new owners from collecting the data.
This post is complete nonsense and I'm just ever so happy that I have deleted my account the moment the sale went public. Considering the fact that my GF was able to send messages to my account despite myself having deleted it, I doubt that anything was really deleted though. So thanks.