Gregory's ServerThis is what the iOS contact permission prompt should be
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  @dale_price Exactly, get even with the “We and our 1465 partners value your privacy”. This one is from vice.com.   @mrtnsnp @dale_price That's why I call them "American popup notices". If they had anything to do with the EU, then every time they got a deletion request, their GDPR officer would have to call each of those 1465 "partners", and ensure that they delete the data. Of course you can also tell that this has nothing to do with EU regulation by the lack of a no button. @leeloo Compliance with GDPR is severely lacking, also on sites within the EU. I see the dialogs with the no button hidden several layers deep all the time. But to answer your first question: yes, they are insane. @dale_price   @dale_price There are programs on Android that kinda do this by misusing the work apps profile feature. This is where I throw social media and fast food apps. There are no contacts in the work mode address book, and when I hit the freeze button they all get chloroform naps.   @MontgomeryGator Waitwaitwait... That's AWESOME why didn't I hear about this yet? What App is that? @tobtobxx Shelter by PeterCxy of F-Droid. There's another called Insular by proletarius101 that's the same idea also on F-Droid. While I got you there, NeoStore is my preferred F-Droid client over the official one, it works a bit faster and looks a bit nicer. @MontgomeryGator Thanks! Does Neo Store have unattended background updates? (ie. Without the "update APK" popup?) Because that's the reason I'm using F-Droid Basic. EDIT: Without root. @tobtobxx I don't think so, that being said I'm not entirely sure. I know having both applications doesn't cause conflicts, they both can manage the same apps jointly.  @dale_price imagine getting this request from a contact you haven't talked to in years. Would you block and delete, or only reject the request?
 If you can't remotely revoke the contact info from the dipshit, what good does it really do?  @dale_price   @fredbrooker @dale_price You don't get to share my personal data with 3rd parties.  So, you'd rather have your contacts sharing your data without your consent? I do not. And I'd permanently block folks if they did share my details without making sure I'd consent to that.  @dale_price That's not what demon rectangles are about.
If they weren't about doxing absolutely everyone, it wouldn't be possible for a cr...app to access any contact except for the ones you explicitly permit it to.  @dale_price@mastodon.online same for android tbh  @dale_price recently someone in an element call had an error and their "element call" part of element crashed. when that happend everyone of us got a popup with a request to give permission for them to share the crash logs. first time i have ever seen such a thing happen.  @dale_price this is how EVERY contact permission prompt should look like, not only the iOS one.  @farshidhakimy @dale_price That would be an option if we ever found ourselves in the position of owning the things we pay for. GrapheneOS has contact scopes which is a working implementation of this. It allows to select which contacts you want to share (if any) and offers that to the application. If you seleted none, then it'll be just an empty address book.  @dale_price yes except the default option and alternate should be the other way around  @dale_price People need to look up consent and permission before submitting contact details via any sharing features too lol  @dale_price the fact that they can share a photo of you with any gen AI seems a more pressing issue to me.  @dale_price is there any reason why a flashlight app needs contact permissions?  @dale_price The only third party app I’ve ever allowed access to contacts is @signalapp, that’s after seeing in their court responses that, as their published source code implies and privacy commitments claim, they don’t misuse that access.   @dale_price I've unfortunately just accepted this as a fact of human nature. Nobody, and I mean nobody, ever asked me before sharing my contact with a third party, be it another human or, in this case it's even less likely, an app.  @dale_price a fucking _Flashlight_ App should have no access to contacts at all!   @dale_price +9001% And it should demand that in writing by notarized letter and to be compliant not just with #GDPR, not push anythibg to #iCloud (which falls ubder #CloudAct aht thus *can'r comply) and preemtively sort out #minors (as they can't consent as per #BDSG, nor can their parents on their behalf!)... @dale_price Briefly looking at CNContact, it looks like iOS doesn't have a similar "pick one contact to share with app" API? What could make them add it? @idbrii I think iOS’ CNContactPickerViewController does that, but you’re right that it’s not commonly used  @dale_price there should be one more button, labeled "why the heck a flashlight needs my contacts info???"  Im mildly concerned - were used that pretty much all our contact Info is automatically shared with at least one, usually two companies whose whole purpose are advertisement and data abuse. One of them is even praised as „open system“ by many. |
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