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It's not about outright banning, it's about limiting to the minimum amount required to perform the service. Btw. nobody complains about WhatsApp holding metadat

• bduerst 10y ago
  >It's not about outright banning, it's about limiting to the minimum amount required to perform the service That's not how the German government is defining their ban. >We complain about WhatsApp transmitting this data in a quite hidden fashion to Facebook. FB announced last month [1] that they were sharing specific types of data between Whatsapp and FB. That's not "hidden". [1] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/26/technology/relaxing-privacy-vow-whatsapp-to-share-some-data-with-facebook.html http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/26/technology/relaxing-privac...
  • wsy 10y ago
    An article in NY Times does not help to make it less hidden, particularly for German users. What is required is to inform every user individually and ask for his/her permission to transmit the data to another party. Explicit permission (= informed consent) is necessary because this data transfer is not required to perform the service (see above).