App suddenly crashing on startup due to FBSDKRestrictiveDataFilterManager.m

Re:App suddenly crashing on startup due to FBSDKRestrictiveD... by doersino on Friday July 10, 2020 @10:42AM (#23791904)

Not in Germany: https://faq.whatsapp.com/android/chats/how-to-save-your-chat...

Don't ask me what's leading WhatsApp's legal department to believe that this feature doesn't comply with German privacy laws. It's quite puzzling. (I would've rather expected a feature like this to be mandated by EU laws.)

As of now, there's no non-hacky way of exporting chats for German users. (Hacky ways include: dubious third-party software, copying each message individually, taking screenshots.)

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Re:App suddenly crashing on startup due to FBSDKRestrictiveD... by hexaz on Friday July 10, 2020 @06:33PM (#23797357)

Most probably not privacy related, but the result of Blackberry suing Facebook over some patent stuff in Germany. (German source: https://t3n.de/news/whatsapp-kein-chat-export-mehr-1238327/)

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Re:App suddenly crashing on startup due to FBSDKRestrictiveD... by doersino on Saturday July 11, 2020 @07:44AM (#23801358)

Thanks for the pointer! Of course it's software patent trolling, ugh.

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Re:App suddenly crashing on startup due to FBSDKRestrictiveD... by DoofusOfDeath on Friday July 10, 2020 @05:40PM (#23796836)

Can you obtain that same information via a GPDR request for all of the information they have about you?

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Re:App suddenly crashing on startup due to FBSDKRestrictiveD... by doersino on Saturday July 11, 2020 @07:42AM (#23801344)

Messages and associated media aren't permanently stored on WhatsApp's servers, so sadly this wouldn't help much with chat export.

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Re:App suddenly crashing on startup due to FBSDKRestrictiveD... by fencepost on Saturday July 11, 2020 @09:52AM (#23802210)

Time for a road trip?

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