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How does ingress mine my social network? It doesn't ask for any logins and doesn't have any social connections in-game as far as I can tell.

• espinchi 13y ago
  Just checked, and it has permission to read your contacts. That's nasty!
  • darren_ 13y ago
    I can't guarantee it's not for anything else but the innocuous reason I can think of for this is the 'recruit agents' invite system (ingress was initially invite-only). I think it's opened up now, but hopefully they can drop that when/if they ditch the whole recruit agents thing (no idea if they plan to do that).
  • abrahamsen 13y ago
    That means Google (the makers of Ingress) will get access to the list of contacts I have stored in Google Contacts. I believe I can live with that :-)