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by dyl 3005 days ago
My particular case was not related to WhatsApp (OP of the tweet here) as I had never installed or used WhatsApp until yesterday.
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Can you reply to [0]? Copying here:

>> You know, you're going on about the data that fb has... and yet you've just shared other peoples names all over the internet. (Unless you've changed them, as the font seems different in the photo?)

[0] https://twitter.com/i400s/status/977102139263782912

People's names are public. I don't see any issue with OP sharing them. There's no context at all.
You just illustrated the main issue here. People's names are public, true. Those people using to have a relationship with the op, both the fact that there was a relationship at some point and that there is no relationship atm, is NOT public info. That's not OPs information to give away.

This is the problem I have with the #deletefacebook thing, deleting facebook and even facebook disappearing all together is not going to make the world more secure, as most people seem to believe. There are many more companies that have data about you, for example did you ever wondered how many websites you use are using jquery from code.jquery.org cdn?

The info shared by OP might not affect any of the parties involved. So does most of the crap facebook "leaked". But what if that info is affecting somebody?

You might be pointing out that laws could be enacted to prevent this from happening. It's a fact that laws cannot keep up with technology.

The solution is to educate yourself about how online works, about what data means and then educate the persons around you about this.

I think they mean your partners mom or your partner had WhatsApp.
Checking now, it looks like both of them have WhatsApp accounts.
So it somehow linked that to your account, and they slipped up on showing it to you. I'm sure if they exported they'd find that they also have more calls.
>and they slipped up on showing it to you.

Why do you think this?

I for one am happy as hell that they are including this, and I don't think we should be implying it was a mistake or that it's wrong. If you want them to export all their data about you, they should export all their data about you, and it looks like they are.

> they should export all their data about you, and it looks like they are.

I don't think they are exporting all their data about us.

Because the calls were not between that person, they were between two other people, that's kind of personal information that should only have been exported to the parties involved? Privacy and all that good stuff.

>Because the calls were not between that person, they were between two other people

I think one of us is misunderstanding the tweet here.

I read it as these calls are between OP and OP's Partner's mother. Meaning OP is a first-party in all of the calls. OP may not have been the source of the data, but OP was involved in the data, so the data was revealed to OP when he exported all of it.

Are you on Android?