[khabaal]

Here in Germany, saying that, after being accuired by facebook, you wont exchange any data with facebook, was a huge sales pitch because people started to get really worried about data privacy.

Even people like my mother, who normally has no idea about whats going on, were worried back then but then calmed down by that statement. And the media, where this had quickly became an issue, stopped reporting, because everything seemed to turn out fine.

But now, they broke that promise and altered their product, which now results in those accusations of misdirection of the users and the public. They made that statement, people everywhere became reliant to whatsapp and now everything stated before turned out to be a lie.