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Re:Facebook Ordered to Stop Collecting Data on WhatsApp User... by kuschku on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @12:37PM (#12590894)
Network effects – at this point even some schools and newspapers are heavily using WhatsApp – make that impossible.

Which means either WhatsApp is replaced by something else, or it becomes as regulated as any governmental media.

EDIT: A bank already replaced most of their support channels with a WhatsApp chat.

It IS a utility at that point.

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Re:Facebook Ordered to Stop Collecting Data on WhatsApp User... by blowski on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @02:59PM (#12592102)
Also, employers and travel authorities who view the lack of a Facebook accountant as suspicious.
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