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Re:Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts,... by sneak on Saturday February 27, 2021 @01:15PM (#26286797)
When you leak your contacts, you harm others, not just yourself.

This, among other reasons, is why I never give out the number of my SIM card, or my residential address, et c, to anyone. They're just going to click "allow" and give it to a thousand shady companies, starting with Facebook.

I never give people data I don't want stored in my shadow profile.

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Re:Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts,... by MaxBarraclough on Saturday February 27, 2021 @02:54PM (#26287615)
> When you leak your contacts, you harm others, not just yourself.

As Eben Moglen puts it, privacy is ecological, not transactional.

See http://snowdenandthefuture.info/PartIII.html

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