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Re:Companies that buy data derived from scraping the content... by McDyver on Monday February 10, 2020 @02:05PM (#22292114)
From their T&C's page "you may provide us with information about your contacts (such as names, email addresses, etc.)"

Whoever installs this app consents to sharing the information of their contacts, who might not consent to having their data shared.

Ultimately, this could lead to giving disposable contact details to friends and relatives, in order to (try to) preserve one's privacy.

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Re:Companies that buy data derived from scraping the content... by Cpoll on Monday February 10, 2020 @03:34PM (#22292968)
That's a tough problem to solve, "Import your Address Book" has been a feature of communications platforms as far back as I can remember.
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Re:Companies that buy data derived from scraping the content... by JohnFen on Monday February 10, 2020 @03:51PM (#22293145)
And it's been a terrible practice from day 1.
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