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Re:Notes on privacy and data collection of Matrix.org by pmlnr on Friday June 14, 2019 @07:19AM (#20182049)
> "Riot needs permission to access your address book contacts to find other Matrix users based on their email and phone numbers. Please allow access on the next pop-up to discover address book users reachable from Riot."

access != upload

This is the same wording how Facebook/LinkedIn/etc got our contact list.

Also:

> a hostile fork

What? Matrix is Free Software. There is no such thing as "hostile fork".

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Re:Notes on privacy and data collection of Matrix.org by jasonzemos on Friday June 14, 2019 @01:39PM (#20184922)
It's possible to have a fork where both sides of the fork remain compatible. A hostile fork will lose this property by one or both sides of the fork causing divergence on purpose (generally the incumbent side) to make it difficult for the other side (generally the parasitic side). This is certainly a real phenomenon, regardless of whether the software is free or proprietary.
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Re:Notes on privacy and data collection of Matrix.org by eeZah7Ux on Friday June 14, 2019 @08:47AM (#20182514)
> What? Matrix is Free Software. There is no such thing as "hostile fork".

Of course there is.

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