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Claimed to remove metadata from servers unless <legally> obliged to collect it: https://www.quora.com/Does-WhatsApp-store-messages-on-its-servers-or-is-all-deleted-after-delivery-and-only-stored-on-recipients-phones/answer/Ciro-Santilli

They've had a few breaches: https://www.whatsapp.com/security/advisories/

They claim to delete metadata: https://www.quora.com/Does-WhatsApp-store-messages-on-its-servers-or-is-all-deleted-after-delivery-and-only-stored-on-recipients-phones/answer/Ciro-Santilli

\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4YsJt4rIOI]
{title=WhatsApp founder Jan Koum talks about their Journey by Roots (2017)}
{description=Good talk, explains how everything happened in the perfect location at the perfect time: unemployed people who knew how to code, bought an iPhone, the next big platform, at its very beginning, they had just release the required push notifications <API>, and he travelled a lot and knew how much SMS sucked, especially international.}
