Facebook (which owns WhatsApp) engages in mass surveillance / info gathering / spying on its users. It does so on behalf of its paying clients (= not the users); and also on behalf of the US government: The NSA gets a copy of most of everything (as we know due following Snowden's revelations).
So, Facebook definitely intrudes on people privacy, even if it doesn't "hack phones".
Still, I wish _both_ companies had to face harsh consequences for their conduct.
Facebook has been selling information about journalists to governments who intend to assassinate said journalists? Do you have a source for that claim?
Facebook has been giving out information for free, about all people, including anyone the US intends to assassinate, to the US government.
Whether the US government was actually intending to assassinate any of Facebook's users - I have no idea; I don't have access to the assassination lists the president signs.
Facebook (which owns WhatsApp) engages in mass surveillance / info gathering / spying on its users. It does so on behalf of its paying clients (= not the users); and also on behalf of the US government: The NSA gets a copy of most of everything (as we know due following Snowden's revelations).
So, Facebook definitely intrudes on people privacy, even if it doesn't "hack phones".
Still, I wish _both_ companies had to face harsh consequences for their conduct.