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Re:WhatsApp told to stop sharing user data with Facebook by ... by rifung on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @03:24PM (#15963902)
> Also most of the restaurants hide their revenues from tax authorities (it was recently in the news) - otherwise the prices will be much higher, like our neighbors have (France, Italy).

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding but are you arguing that it's good restaurants evade taxes because it keeps their prices low?

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Re:WhatsApp told to stop sharing user data with Facebook by ... by kenoph on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @05:14PM (#15964916)
Yeah, that's not really a good point. But the other two points stand and are two very good points.
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Re:WhatsApp told to stop sharing user data with Facebook by ... by omnimus on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @06:52PM (#15965666)
Totally legit reason in some countries. In Czech republic this became such a topic that half a year ago the government implemented a new system. Now every single payment cash or cashless has to be sent in real time to central gov server. This also means that every merchant has to have digital terminal so almost all of them accept credit cards.

Many restaurants (especially those with good service + good price) had to increase their prices a lot since then.

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Re:WhatsApp told to stop sharing user data with Facebook by ... by rifung on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @03:38AM (#15967994)
> Totally legit reason in some countries.

Sorry but what is a legit reason and it's a legit reason for what?

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