[welshrats]

Everyone is talking about the value of WhatsApp's social network to advertisers, but I thought one of the key points of WhatsApp was that it was a paid service and they collect no data on you specifically because they aren't interested in selling ads. [http://blog.whatsapp.com/index.php/2012/06/why-we-dont-sell-...] Should people who bought into the idea that they were not the product be looking for a new paid WhatsApp like product?

[TeMPOraL]

But don't they have to collect the data about you because law? (to use the newly allowed English construct ;)).

Also, in the blog post they didn't explicitly stated that they don't collect data; they wrote that they just don't care about it much when thinking about product development.

[blakeja]

That is how it always starts, right?