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From: Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
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Subject: Re: whatsapp interoperability
Date: 21 Sep 2024 18:04:18 GMT
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Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> wrote:
> Am 21.09.24 um 13:39 schrieb Carlos E.R.:
> > On 2024-09-21 09:39, Jörg Lorenz wrote:
> >> Am 20.09.24 um 20:25 schrieb Carlos E.R.:
> >>> On 2024-09-20 14:30, Jörg Lorenz wrote:
> >>>> On 19.09.24 21:47, Andy Burns wrote:
> >>>>> Carlos E.R. wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> You live in a different country than me. Here, if I need to call a
> >>>>>> plumber to fix a broken tap, he asks me to send a photo via wasap. You
> >>>>>> can not live without having and using wasap. My bank manager this
> >>>>>> morning sent me her profesional contact info, on wasap.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thankfully, it's not yet become "semi-obligatory" here ...
> >>>>
> >>>> It isn't anywhere.
> >>>
> >>> LOL! Here it is. Not obligatory, just the de facto standard. Everybody
> >>> has it. Even banks assume you have it.
> >>
> >> https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/08/business/banks-fines-whatsapp-records.html
> > 
> > That's there, not here.
> 
> There is here:
> 
> https://www.edpb.europa.eu/news/news/2023/edpb-publishes-binding-decision-concerning-whatsapp_en
> 
> In Europe the same rules apply.
> BTW: I work in this industry. The use of consumer messengers for 
> business purposes is strictly forbidden everywhere for very serious 
> reasons.

  You keep claiming that. You keep failing to provide proof of such a
prohibition and we keep giving counter examples of WhatsApp *being* used
for "business purposes".

>	   Messengers and in particular WA make it impossible for the 
> banks and other financial institutions to have an uninterrupted and 
> accepted documentation of client communication.

  Nope, it's not impossible. It may be that some institutions have
chosen not to *implement* such archival of client communication, but
that's their *choice*, not a technical - or other - impossibility.

> You do not understand much of the regulatory requirements of modern 
> business at all.

  Please choose which logical fallacy best fits your 'argument': Straw
man? Red herring? Other?