[andreygrehov]

So, I took a look. You said that they share the contests of your messages. Looks like that's simply wrong.

Messsages

"We do not retain your messages in the ordinary course of providing our Services to you. Instead, your messages are stored on your device and not typically stored on our servers. Once your messages are delivered, they are deleted from our servers."

Photos

"When a user forwards media within a message, we store that media temporarily in encrypted form on our servers"

Automatically Collected Information

Usage And Log Information, Device And Connection Information, Location Information and Cookies.

What am I missing? What exactly is WhatsApp doing wrong? Once again, I hate shady shit, but I'm not seeing anything crazy in here.

[bitcharmer]

They don't have to store anything to make a good use of that data.

[andreygrehov]

"The information we share with the other Facebook Companies. includes your account registration information (such as your phone number), transaction data, service-related information, information on how you interact with others (including businesses) when using our Services, mobile device information, your IP address, and may include other information identified in the Privacy Policy section entitled ‘Information We Collect’ or obtained upon notice to you or based on your consent."

All in all, nothing special. Nobody shares your messages/media.

[bitcharmer]

The very block of text you quoted is terrifying for me. Why am I getting the impression there is no convincing you about how bad for our privacy this is?

[andreygrehov]

Because half of what you said is wrong. Your original message states that WhatsApp shares contents of your messages, your location, photos of your kids, etc with third-parties.

> The contents of my messages, photos of my kids, who I talk to and when, my location. Is that enough for you?

Look, this is simply not truth. You are ex-aggregating things and create a panic out of nothing. If you don't like them knowing your location, fine, turn Location Services off. As for media, nobody cares about photos of your kids. It's a not monetizable content.