Re:Germany's data chief tells ministries WhatsApp is a no-go
by pccole on Monday May 18, 2020 @11:48AM
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No, you're not over-reacting. I refuse to give access to my contacts to any app; however, that doesn't stop my friend, mom, or a cousin from giving access and Facebook/Google building a profile on you. The other issue here is Apple and Google have not updated these permissions to only get access to certain contacts you choose, its either all or nothing.
Do people keep a private offline contacts list, or a clean phone just for this?
Or do folks just not care about giving away the mobile phone numbers (and addresses? email addresses? birthdays? other notes on the contact about kids names, etc.?) to an app?
Am I behind the times and everyone just knows none of this stuff is private anyways due to leaks etc.? Even if that is your attitude, it seems you are feeding more links to the graph someone else is maintaining. Did you get consent from every one of your contacts to do so?
I feel like I must be missing something here. Am I over-reacting or paranoid?