The interesting bit here is if and how that’ll allow non-whatsapp users to be added to whatsapp group chats. 1:1 communication already works outside of whatsapp (worst case via SMS), but they control those group chats.
Yeah, I’d expect them to stay as far away as possible from actually fulfilling the spirit of the law as any technicalities allow them to. As in, they’ll definitely violate that law, but they won’t violate it more than necessary to make it practically useless.
The interesting bit here is if and how that’ll allow non-whatsapp users to be added to whatsapp group chats. 1:1 communication already works outside of whatsapp (worst case via SMS), but they control those group chats.
The interesting part will be adding WhatsApp users to actually trusted private messaging apps such as literally anything else.
Yeah, I’d expect them to stay as far away as possible from actually fulfilling the spirit of the law as any technicalities allow them to. As in, they’ll definitely violate that law, but they won’t violate it more than necessary to make it practically useless.