Re:Show HN: What do you think of my new social app?
by tallanvor on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @09:49AM
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> In terms of syncing contacts, we don't store any contact book information on our servers.
But... Again, you expect me to trust you. And if I don't trust Facebook or other well-known contacts to use my contacts appropriately, why would I trust what appears to be two random individuals in the UK to not retain that information? Are we supposed to forget the lessons of the past with all of the apps that have used our data inappropriately?
Re:Show HN: What do you think of my new social app?
by onion2k on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @11:57AM
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We pass through the contact book to see if a user exists there, we return them back as a connection. If not we return them as someone you can invite.
Do you log who someone has looked up in Circles when they join? If you do then you could trivially reconstruct someone's contact book.
That's what Facebook were found to be doing, except they were actually creating 'shadow profiles' for the contacts.
Thanks for the grace there, and that's a problem we are solving. You might have X contacts on Circles but you're only going to see from those you have placed in a circle. So only content from people you actually want to see from.
In terms of syncing contacts, we don't store any contact book information on our servers. We pass through the contact book to see if a user exists there, we return them back as a connection. If not we return them as someone you can invite.