> It's because you don't have any right to other peoples data under GDPR. Citation needed that messages intentionally sent to you are "other people's data" and

> It's because you don't have any right to other peoples data under GDPR. Citation needed that messages intentionally sent to you are "other people's data" and regulated under the GDPR. They're certainly not personal information such as a real name or phone number. > That's a feature to help stop doxxing. This has nothing to do with doxxing. Doxxing is easily prevented by merely changing the takeout so that there's plausible deniability - e.g. if person A and B have a conversation and A uses the takeout feature, person B's username would be redacted or minimized such that they could reasonably claim that that person in the transcript could have been anyone.