WhatsApp to go ahead with changes despite backlash
Found on BBC News on Sunday, 14 March 2021
The Facebook-owned platform previously said it had been the victim of "misinformation" around the change.
"In its efforts to clarify that [it] isn't doing anything wrong, Whatsapp has in fact inadvertently highlighted that it was already harvesting huge amounts of data for Facebook," said Ray Walsh, a digital privacy expert at ProPrivacy.
It is pretty safe to assume that everyhing is logged and analyzed. It's Facebook after all.