>>>>If Facebook also has all the telephone data (who you contact, when, how often) and combines this info with the data it already has, it gets far too much insight in our private life. We in Europe are increasingly becoming aware of this all and we don't like that. There has been a mass migration to esp. Telegram, one of the other messaging apps.
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>>>Their webpage opens in Serbian for me, so I won't copy & paste from it... There's a blurb in it, about "we used to work for Yahoo and sell ads... which we hate. We won't sell ads." - of course, if the plan was to sell (all the customer data) to Zuckerberg (who takes the name Sugar Hill, really?).
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>>Maybe Facebook should join forces with the NSA. Maybe they already have. (1/2 joking).
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>For the part you're not joking; We must have laws that prevent this.
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>About Whatsapp: The European Commission is currently finishing a report about Whatsapp's way of collecting data. And their advice will be to forbid Whatsapp to do it that way. They esp. criticize the fact that Wapp also centrally collects phonenumbers of all people in your adressbook who not yet have a Wapp-account. Wapp's reaction is that they are only meant for the U.S., not for Europe, and any claims must be dealt with by the Californian (I think) court. A big lie, because they have translated their app even in Dutch and they also have a Dutch website.The same is true for all our other languages over here.

The flip side of embolded argument is that it gives the NSA an argument to sue companies like Threema - sitting in switzerland, not having to fear NSA or their Brit helpers handing out enforcable gag letters, but as soon as customers in the US want to have encrypted communication that could be torpedoed by forcing them to be bound to US rules before an US court. Not saying I have a remedy ;-)