WhatsApp is close to rolling out third-party chat support across the European Union, as part its compliance with the bloc’s Digital Markets Act (DMA)…

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    I wonder how they’ve choose these platforms. Haiket.com doesn’t even come out by lookin it up on duckduckgo.

    BirdyChat is under limited access. Must wait in waitlist or have an invite from someone already in. Plus they say on their site its “access is limited to professionals”.

    Also, obviously, none of these are foss.

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      The Haiket website doesn’t seem to disclose anything about the people, company, org, or group behind it.

      The privacy policy does not disclose them as processors by name either.

      The privacy policy GDPR section does not talk about shared information, presumably because they don’t because they can’t without consent, but the California section says:

      Please see the “Do Not Sell My Personal Information” section and “Limit the Use or Disclosure of My Sensitive Personal Information” section for more information on how to opt out and limit the use of sensitive information collected.

      Implying a default no-explicit-consent selling of personal and sensitive personal information outside of the GDPR regions.

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      Then seems like they may have chosen these platforms because they’re not accessible and thus not threatening, in a malicious compliance way

      Although, giving them the benefit of doubt, perhaps they wanted a low blast radius for their first integration rollout, which is considered good engineering practice.