i just seem to miss why its favorable to curtail millions (incl. children) of their lives and stomp the economy for the benefit of thousands. shouldn't we have banned alcohol, tabacco, ice-cars, firearms, gambling ... first if this was so important?
agreed i sound a bit pessimistic here, but companies regularly show that the only thing that matters is the bottom line, so i stand by the assertation that breaking the law/eula is not really a question of ethics.
second point; you and i may not be using android and google backup, a vast majority does.
i think he was saying that there is nothing preventing fb from having the wa-client piggyback the content of the messages back to them and call "oops" if found out.
also the issue of device-backups containing the unecrypted message history which is beeing shared from google to facebook.
additional reminder that fb-messenger, whatsapp, imessage and probably a lot others started out as xmpp forks/dialects and even this was not enough to save us from the corporates.