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by hetspookjee 1547 days ago
Luckily we’re kept totally safe by our benevolent overlords. Except for our good friend Jeff Bezos that got hacked through a WhatsApp image. Or the overt spam that any publicly posted business WhatsApp number receives.

WhatsApp replaced SMS as a free alternative with media. Sms is just a protocol. It is not necessary that a replacement is walled garden, especially not under the sole guise of spam protection - something that is being done very poorly anyway.
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Retric 1547 days ago
iMessage and WhatsApp are just a tiny selection of social networks.

Depending in the specifics everything from Yahoo! Messenger to MMO chat either needs to get shut down or made interoperable.

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hetspookjee 1547 days ago
I can only expect the matter to be applied to large applications in some sense. Hopefully they learned a lesson or two from GDPR, and tangentially I don’t expect this roll out to happen anytime soon.
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Retric 1547 days ago
That’s possible, but they don’t have a great track record.
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