WhatsApp never disclosed that it deletes accounts after 120 days of inactivity. Friends watched helplessly as their contacts in Kashmir disappeared from WhatsApp groups during the months-long Internet shutdown.
Facebook, you can do better at transparency. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/hundreds-of-kashmiris-are-disappearing-from-their-whatsapp
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@eff I'm not sure what the solution here is, should Facebook just hold accounts longer or should they make a special exception for these kinds of circumstances? I'm leaning on the latter but I wonder how Facebook would identify those that are in such a situation versus a genuinely inactive account.
