On My Mind

To leave or not to leave WhatsApp, that is not the question

As long as we continue to insist on free services, companies will always have an incentive to collect and sell our information

A new privacy policy will allow WhatsApp to share some user data with its parent company Facebook. PHOTO: REUTERS
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Call me a stubborn, misguided, privacy-hating exhibitionist with dark but handsome eyes if you must, but I have no intention of joining the thousands of people currently deleting WhatsApp from their phones.

For a few days last week, it seemed like I was about to have nobody left to message on WhatsApp.

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