Google is watching

Re:Google is watching by gnerd00 on Monday August 18, 2025 @06:25PM (#44945934)

my neighbor said he recently plugged in his iPhone to a PC while logged in to his Google account in the browser, and all his iPhone contacts were imported into GMail contacts.. is this possible? the contacts are now in Google GMail, and he did not affirmatively consent at any stage, is the story.

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Re:Google is watching by klik99 on Monday August 18, 2025 @06:29PM (#44945964)

I’m pretty sure that Apple blocks any exporting of contacts without consent, maybe he previously consented and it stored it, or he clicked ok without thinking. Even things that require consent can be engineered to make it easy to thoughtlessly agree

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Re:Google is watching by zenmac on Monday August 18, 2025 @06:32PM (#44945992)

At this point FOSS address book on F-Droid has a way to store your contact that is NOT visible to other apps.

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Re:Google is watching by zenmac on Monday August 18, 2025 @06:31PM (#44945979)

Wow can't believe this is still happening!

Twitter pull that shit very early on iOS before they had the permissions, all my contacts were uploaded to their server. Never ever trust that company again.

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