true, but by having my phone number and my friends address book that lists my phone number, you in-fact have my phone number.

We don’t know your home address

You have my friends address book which has my address for my phone number and you have my phone number. So. No. You do in-fact have my home address.

We don’t know where you work

See above

or collect your GPS location

that's what you say, but you really have my GPS location, at least to some degree as sharing my location is one of the features in WhatsApp I used at times.

None of that data has ever been collected and stored by WhatsApp, and we really have no plans to change that.

While I believe you that you so far haven't collected anything, there's nothing to stop your new owners from collecting the data.

This post is complete nonsense and I'm just ever so happy that I have deleted my account the moment the sale went public. Considering the fact that my GF was able to send messages to my account despite myself having deleted it, I doubt that anything was really deleted though. So thanks.