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Stephen Downes

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The short answer is: because nobody trusts Facebook, which owns the popular messaging platform WhatsApp. Recent "confusion over an updated terms of service notification from Facebook" hasn't helped either. "Many users expressed concerns about a section of WhatsApp's privacy policy that details what user data is collected and shared with parent company Facebook, which has a troubled reputation when it comes to protecting user data." Readers may recall that I stopped using all Facebook produces two or three years ago.

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