Facebook Ordered to Stop Collecting Data on WhatsApp Users in Germany

Re:Facebook Ordered to Stop Collecting Data on WhatsApp User... by saiya-jin on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @09:08AM (#12589298)

you wouldn't pay 2 billion for messaging app with few hundred millions of users that is without ads and doesn't make any money to be philanthropic about it, would you (or anybody else)

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Re:Facebook Ordered to Stop Collecting Data on WhatsApp User... by coldcode on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @12:10PM (#12590672)

20 Billion. 2 Billion was what it was worth. Maybe.

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Re:Facebook Ordered to Stop Collecting Data on WhatsApp User... by tsunamifury on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @09:46AM (#12589524)

22 billion

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Re:Facebook Ordered to Stop Collecting Data on WhatsApp User... by yoghurt on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @11:41AM (#12590422)

Well, they could've actually started charging for the service. $1 a year was more than reasonable for me.

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Re:Facebook Ordered to Stop Collecting Data on WhatsApp User... by jsudhams on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @12:52PM (#12591015)

I remember it said 1$ from next year onwards and first year was free. May if they weren't not bought out by FB that would have been their option and it would have been a better one. Not sure why any of the lead not start new clone and start charging

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