My Whatsapp chats range from “Stuck in traffic, give me 5” through funny pics to pillow talk. I just found out they’re worth around 100 USD to someone.
You could call it a massive exit for a young entrepreneur or FB trying to eliminate the competition.
Yes, we are aware that Whatsapp was never a safe bet to use (after all I give them permission to read my SMS, my pictures and full network access to send data out).
Do I feel better about the NSA reading my data or about facebook doing so? Is there a difference anyways?
One of my favorite Ted talks still is: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv7Y0W0xmYQ
After all I’m wondering where the madness of Dollars for Data is going.