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Paulo Montenegro @ Ubergizmo 2 place · today 10:19 EDT

WhatsApp Uses Age Data For New Birthday Reminder Feature

WhatsApp is currently developing a new feature aimed at reminding users of their contacts’ birthdays, mirroring functionality long established on its sister platform, Facebook. Discovered in the code of a recent Android beta version by the tracking site WABetaInfo, the tool introduces a dedicated tab where upcoming birthdays are organized chronologically. The foundation for this feature stems from recent regulatory requirements. WhatsApp recently began collecting the birth years of users […]

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