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I think the ramifications are bigger than that - heaps of services want unrestricted, virtually unaccountable access to our contacts and address books and quite

I think the ramifications are bigger than that - heaps of services want unrestricted, virtually unaccountable access to our contacts and address books and quite liberally help themselves to it - like Path earlier this year found to be uploading everyone's address books to their servers. A best case scenario for us will greatly limit the way and extent companies access our data.

mgkimsal 13y ago
Some services give it regardless of whether it's asked for - I'm specifically thinking of facebook here. I've done a couple of prototype apps with "login with facebook" functionality. Regardless of whether our app requests it or not, facebook automatically says that we're requesting "access to friends list" - that's just one of the minimum levels of things you get, even if you don't want them, and there's no way to not get it.