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WhatsApp requires a phone number, implicitly deanonymizing you. It also lacked e2ee for a long time.

Signal requires a phone number. Use the fork Session that generates anonymous identifiers. https://getsession.org

Apple participated in PRISM and also requires an identifier such as an email address or phone number.

E2E encryption means that the content of the messages you send are encrypted. Requiring a SIM card to sign-up doesn't kill that feature.

Anonymity is not equivalent to privacy, although lots of characteristics overlap.

phone numbers cost like $5. phone numbers don't deanonymize you.

In EU they do.

... and?

Would be amusing if British ministers could no longer use WhatsApp. They seem to be addicted to it.

Meta and Apple will come to and arrangement. Signal will not.

I'm not sure how I feel about any of that.

Agree entirely. Meta and Apple will make a lot of noise but ultimately neither will want to lose the UK market.

Have they quit Australian market?