Not for a second would I have believed they <i>actually</i> delete information. (which is why I've avoided them). Even this site can leak at any time.<p>This whole industry is meant to harvest user information. Richard Stallman tried to warn us. Jaron Lanier called it "siren servers", because they hypnotized people into using their services. I hope this encourages people to question this and and to look for alternatives.
Don't you think this is some sort of caching or something in your WhatsApp client?
Since WhatsApp is unreachable, how would your client "retrieve" your deleted messages?
Wow this is a massive breach of trust if true. I am assuming it is some unintentional side effect or bug rather than intentional deception, but still, for a privacy oriented service this is bad.