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Re:If you care about privacy, you should not use Google Allo by gandarojin on Friday May 20, 2016 @02:25PM (#11740241)
Except… WhatsApp definitely gets a copy of your address book: https://www.whatsapp.com/faq/en/general/20971813 “During this entire process, only phone numbers are sent to WhatsApp for lookup, securely, over an encrypted connection.”
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Re:If you care about privacy, you should not use Google Allo by nileshtrivedi on Friday May 20, 2016 @02:33PM (#11740315)
Whatsapp also gets the metadata about the message: sender, receiver, time and probably location.
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