All of that said, in the recent Wired interview one of the WhatsApp engineering leads suggested opening and documenting the client-server API for WhatsApp rather than implementing a different protocol.
So now they collect metadata from users of other messaging apps?
So now they collect metadata from users of other messaging apps?
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Yes there is. Lots of them do. Some of them don’t even have servers to collect the data in the first place.
Which is completely unnecessary and also close to zero.
That’s not what we’re discussing.
What is it you think it’s collecting outside of metadata?
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