whatsapp was/is a "market leader" in community watch groups, literally embedded in the city landscape. with the facebook acquisition suddenly all these local groups became a data mining and selling property, with the participating folks a captive population.

greed has overfloweth, lack of any moral compunction is the rule of the game.

fine but this usually bites back in ways not immediately obvious. so don't ask why the world is going to hell one crisis at a time.