And all thieves pay close attention to laws, and make sure their apps have “nothing” hidden in the folds.
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NuPNuA@lemm.ee 8 months agoMeh, 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.
timetraveller@lemmy.world 8 months ago
machinin@lemmy.world 8 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 8 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?
machinin@lemmy.world 8 months ago
So you’re saying that the only way a messaging app can work is to access all the information from all your contacts? If it doesn’t have all that information, it can’t work? If Whatsapp can’t have all that information, it would be impossible to function?
NuPNuA@lemm.ee 8 months ago
No, it’s fully possible to have its own account and log in system, but that adds a layer of abstraction that makes it harder to sell to people as a replacement for their inbuilt messaging apps which just require a phone number.