Comment on Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage
NuPNuA@lemm.ee 10 months agoBecause that’s how phones work, it links your account to your phone number and uses your contacts to tell you who’s on the app too using their numbers.
Comment on Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage
NuPNuA@lemm.ee 10 months agoBecause that’s how phones work, it links your account to your phone number and uses your contacts to tell you who’s on the app too using their numbers.
machinin@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah, that is also how computer viruses work. I was very thankful for permission control. That app is cancer.
NuPNuA@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Meh, I think some people are just paranoid on Lemmy when it comes to stuff like this. There’s plenty of laws in the UK around storage and use of information that protect users of apps like this.
machinin@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If it’s so benign, why make it necessary to give all the information about all your contacts to the app?
To paraphrase Zuckerberg, “people are dumbfucks for giving me so much information.”
NuPNuA@lemm.ee 10 months ago
How else do you think a messaging app that replaces your phones messaging functionality is supposed to work if not on phone numbers?
timetraveller@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And all thieves pay close attention to laws, and make sure their apps have “nothing” hidden in the folds.