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Re:WhatsApp told to stop sharing user data with Facebook by ... by andrewaylett on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @12:27PM (#15961877)
That still depends on the jurisdiction: Scotland, for example, does allow for contracts without consideration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_contract_law
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Re:WhatsApp told to stop sharing user data with Facebook by ... by Tomte on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @01:34PM (#15962635)
Same in Germany: you can contract to gift something.

Of course, German contract law is very strange and alien to every other legal tradition (except Japan, I think, and that‘s only because they modeled their civil law on ours).

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