... finally been the final push all my friends needed to dump it and move to Signal.

Several of the WhatsApp groups I'm on have, as of this morning, been disbanded and re-launched on Signal.

Facebook say the new policy applies to business accounts, but heck, the cat's out the bag and gone.

What's most amazing to me is that a lot more people seem to be a tad more concerned about their privacy, when they ordinarily wouldn't have.

Mark.