Yes it seems this is how people are interpreting it. By "problematic" I meant that the distinction of "European users" is problematic to me because it is unclea

Yes it seems this is how people are interpreting it. By "problematic" I meant that the distinction of "European users" is problematic to me because it is unclear how the distinction is made. As an EU resident who doesn't live in the EU and doesn't use WhatsApp on an EU phone number, will they allow me to be exempt? By "millions" I meant that there have to be millions of EU citizens and residents living, working, and traveling outside of the EU. And there have to be millions of Africans, Asians, Americans, etc living, working, and traveling in the EU. Does this cover them? I'm not a lawyer or some super well-read privacy person... just an average Internet person who thinks Facebook already gathers too much data.