@jherazob @ppdelft They already have your phonenumber, WA uses that as identifier for you and your contacts. For e-mail use a disposable e-mailadres. (they will send you followup questions to it, so make sure you can receive it)

@steko @ppdelft Wow, they make it really difficult to exercise your right of #privacy. This company has a totally wrong business model. I recommend to not use any of their services: #DeleteMeta, #DeleteFacebook, #DeleteInstagram, #DeleteWhatsApp, #DeleteThreads

@steko @ppdelft
Just received the same response, sounds to me like floating GDPR responsibilities, answered it restating what i said, let's wait and see

@gerardo It's a right given by the GDPR, the EU privacy law. Some countries have similar privacy regulations, but many lack them

@heleenkuiper Short answer: Yes, if an organisation asks to place cookies, it should be equally easy to reject them as to accept. If not, that a breach of the GDPR.

Long answer: Exception to this is strictly necessary cookies, for this no permission is needed at all. It is then also not needed to have a cookie wall, but sometimes there is and then it can be legally okay to have a cookie wall that only has an OK button.

But in this case "inzicht in onze diensten" sounds like tracking that requires explicit and specific consent as described in GDPR.
The button "COOKIES BEHEREN" is misleading because you cannot control cookies there. Another demand for a valid cookie permissions is that it must be possible to withdraw consent as easy as it is given. (Cookie walls that have this possibility are a rare exception.)

Just referring to the browser settings is evil and illegal, it is not possible to give/withdraw specific permissions. You can only set 'reject all cookies', which breaks many websites, or 'reject third party cookies', which still has many tracking possibilities.

Great resource for cookie knowlegde: https://noyb.eu/en/project/cookie-banners

@heleenkuiper That is what Meta writes themselves about it: "In the EU, we will soon begin training our AI models on the interactions that people have with AI at Meta". source: (warning , links to Meta) https://about.fb.com/news/2025/04/making-ai-work-harder-for-europeans/ )

But using WhatsApp and avoiding Meta AI is going to be very hard, see screenshot by @steko : https://scholar.social/@steko/114437837183945507

It is true that the end-to-end encrypted message content will not be used for AI, for now, for as long as none of the participants touch an AI feature. But you can be sure that more and more dark patterns will be used to trick users into using the AI features.

So, the only real solution is to delete WhatsApp.