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Re:Global coalition to Facebook: “Authentic names” are dange... by nsgi on Monday October 05, 2015 @07:14PM (#10335671)
Do you have her number in your phone?
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Re:Global coalition to Facebook: “Authentic names” are dange... by Swizec on Monday October 05, 2015 @07:17PM (#10335681)
Sometimes yes, sometimes no. But I don't remember giving FB permission to view my phone numbers.
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Re:Global coalition to Facebook: “Authentic names” are dange... by Nadya on Monday October 05, 2015 @07:37PM (#10335764)
If you have the FB app installed it has access to your contacts.
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Re:Global coalition to Facebook: “Authentic names” are dange... by Swizec on Monday October 05, 2015 @07:44PM (#10335790)
Let me rephrase, I don't want it to have access to my contacts and did not realize that it does. Now that I know it likely does, I am discomforted.
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Re:Global coalition to Facebook: “Authentic names” are dange... by zoul on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @02:01AM (#10336973)
At least on iOS it doesn’t, unless you gave it the permission yourself.
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Re:Global coalition to Facebook: “Authentic names” are dange... by balladeer on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @03:16AM (#10337180)
Hopefully in Android Marshmallow this feature is not again shot down just before release.

Granular permission control is one single thing I am waiting for in Android 6.0 because that is the only feature I wanted to root my phone for.

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Re:Global coalition to Facebook: “Authentic names” are dange... by Estragon on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @12:29AM (#10336761)
What does the FB app give you that the website doesn't anyway? I had no idea why I would want it on my phone when FB was pushing it on me.
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Re:Global coalition to Facebook: “Authentic names” are dange... by Already__Taken on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @04:29AM (#10337445)
Instant messaging :(
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Re:Global coalition to Facebook: “Authentic names” are dange... by tedunangst on Monday October 05, 2015 @07:42PM (#10335781)
There are phones for which that may not be true.
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