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0 pointsNamari5y ago0 comments

The article says Whatsapp will now share:

    * User phone numbers
    * Other people’s phone numbers stored in address books
    * Profile names
    * Profile pictures and
    * Status message including when a user was last online
    * Diagnostic data collected from app logs

and already was getting:

    Purchases
    Financial information
    Location
    Contacts
    User content
    Identifiers
    Usage data and
    Diagnostics

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castorp5y ago

Doesn't this mean that anybody agreeing to those terms needs to ask permission from each and everybody in their address book?

And if they don't, can I sue them (at least in the EU) or ask my contact to be removed before the agree to the terms?

yulaow5y ago

technically it is facebook in violation of GDPR considering that all the data in the addressbook is easily considered personal data for a commercial entity and so facebook should ask the permission to each owner of those numbers before collecting them.

omk5y ago

https://faq.whatsapp.com/general/contacts/about-contact-uplo...

Based on this they do not store information of users who have not signed up and only store a cryptographic hash. The hash isn't created on the device, so the servers definitely get it.

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