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    1 year ago

    Reading the links provided would have answered your question.

    Provisions for ensuring a higher degree of data portability, interoperability, and access to data for the platform’s business and end-users.

    There is some discussion on if this means that 3rd party apps can develop for chat platforms, and it seems so at face value. eg, gaim/pidgin or trillian can make a come-back and you can use whatever client you want to access the Whatsapp platform. Nothing would then stop an app from natively integrating whatsapps apis alongside their own.

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        1 year ago

        sigh

        Reading the links provided would have stopped you from writing this comment.

        including fines of up to 10% of the worldwide turnover.

        No company is going to risk losing 10% of all their total monies for non-compliance.

        Facebook is estimated to make 116.6 billion US dollars per year. They will not give up 11.7 billion dollars every year as a fine.