WhatsApp has been pretty consistent with their track record, not every Facebook product is the same but if there's one part of the company that's doing really well in terms of security and privacy for its users that's the one.
looks like WhatsApp is appealing, so not a case close.
> noting that WhatsApp did not properly inform EU citizens how it handles their personal data, including how it shares that information with its parent company.
I'm not sure I understand these kind of claims to begin with. WhatsApp is facebook, why would they have to warn users that the data is shared?
How they handle private data, especially if they lie about what they're doing, does really matter. End-to-end encryption doesn't mean anything if they secretly keep the a key able to decrypt it, which is basically what they were getting fined for.
Facebook doesn't think twice about doing highly unethical stuff, covering it up and then lying when it surfaces.
Fish rots from its head and the head is fundamentally rotten.