[LightDestory]

Personally I think the collections of data was being done for alot longer...


My theory is that WhatsApp has been free of cost for us for several years now..They don't really charge anything and based on their popularity their server costs would be a ton! Its not feasible for a company to offer a service like WhatsApp free of charge..So its very likely that they had been sharing WhatsApp data with Facebook and other companies for way longer..We just got to know it now xD

Personally I am a fan of Telegram/Signal as well however most of my contacts have retained on WhatsApp and thus It wouldn't be practical for me to switch to Telegram/Signal even if I wanted to if the majority of my contacts were still on WhatsApp.

I am on the same boat, my friend. 

I have, unfortunately, parents and friends that doesn't know/use telegram so I am forced to stay on WA because without it there is no way to communicate rapidly,except for calls.

I just hope that someday Telegram will be know by everybody and so I will be able to uninstall that very bad application.