"phone-numbers"

This advisory was issued in response to complaints from consumers who felt that they were being forced to provide their personal information in order to receive services

This will make it easier for users to find each other, and it will also make possible to use WhatsApp without sharing a phone number.

Last month, the government rolled out a new privacy protection measure allowing people to use encrypted private numbers for visits to such places.

According to T-Mobile, the data breach did not expose account holders' names, physical addresses, email addresses, financial data, credit card information, social security numbers, tax IDs, passwords or PINs.

Following the complaints the DPC, the European Union's main data privacy regulator, reportedly launched two separate inquiries last month.