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The second one is such a horrible thing that I wish it was blocked by the OS. Stop giving apps access to your entire contacts! I did not consent to those compa
by nerdjon 4y ago
The second one is such a horrible thing that I wish it was blocked by the OS. Stop giving apps access to your entire contacts!
I did not consent to those companies knowing my phone number, name, and likely other information!
But you clicked a little button that they can so its completely fine! \s
That is likely my single biggest pet peeve of the current state of tech is other people being able to consent to MY information being gobbled up just because they clicked a damn button.
- schvenk 4y agoAlthough note that with SMS, you're consenting to multiple phone companies knowing your phone number, name, and definitely other information in the form of all your messages. Possible I should have made that clearer in the original article: it doesn't make sense to me that someone would stick with SMS because they don't want Meta/Google/Apple/whoever to have their info, unless they truly believe that AT&T/T-Mobile/Verizon/etc. are better stewards of our data. (And I don't mean to dunk on that latter group of companies here...I just don't have any reason to believe either group is better than the other.)