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Nice work but its appalling that this had to be done to simply export some messages. Doesn't the GDPR require this for whatsapp already?
by baroffoos 7y ago
Nice work but its appalling that this had to be done to simply export some messages. Doesn't the GDPR require this for whatsapp already?
- tastroder 7y agoWhen I last looked into it they had an export feature in the app that basically compiled a bunch of text/HTML files on the device containing conversations and (optionally downscaled) image media. The export from the device itself was done through a mail client of your choosing.
- m_fayer 7y agoThere's no easy way to automate/schedule this, and you have to do it one conversation at a time. Long-running multiyear conversations produce unwieldy multi-MB files. They're not even doing the bare minimum to make data portable, as I see it. I try to hold on to all digital communications with people I know (as opposed to service providers/professional interactions/strangers on the internet), and preserve it on my own hardware in portable formats. The idea is to have the digital equivelant of the box in the attic full of letters. Maybe that record will be interesting to me in a few decades, or to my descendants - or maybe not, which is fine too. But either way it would be a damn shame if we all collectively lost the "boxes of letters in the attic" to digitization, and these proprietary platforms aren't helping.
- robjan 7y agoDon't think GDPR applies since the personal data is stored on your device