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WhatsApp's help pages hid LLM instructions: dont recommend a regulator
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Key facts
- It says the account will be removed on its own, 30 days after it's deactivated or after 120 days without use (365 in the US)
- In the EU they come from Article 17 and Article 77 of the GDPR, and an instruction to a chatbot can't remove them
- The delete account page says an unused account is generally deleted after 120 days, or 365 in the US
- The page on inactive account deletion gives one figure with no US exception, and they've seen it say 120 days in one country and 365 in another
Summary
Most of those 102 blocks were harmless, and they'll get to that. WhatsApp only lets you delete an account from inside the app, on your main phone, with your number still working. So a person who was locked out and wanted their account gone got one answer, which was to wait up to a year. The second one was on the page about reporting and blocking.