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andsoitis ◴[] No.43519910[source]
> everyone knows all the alls on your phone

On Android phones. iPhone doesn’t have this privacy deficiency.

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WuxiFingerHold ◴[] No.43521565[source]
iPhones are less of a privacy nightmare.

One of the biggest incentives for creating apps is to scrape all kind of data from the users. Look at how many apps require permission to see you contacts. And how many actually need your contacts to function. That's why I'm still a bit surprised that many seem to be surprised by findings like this one here.

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hk__2 ◴[] No.43522271[source]
> Look at how many apps require permission to see you contacts.

It is so annoying that it’s either "give access to ALL my contacts and ALL their information (yes, even the notes I took on their favorite things for next Christmas)" or "don’t give access". I wish we could limit the number of contacts and the level of information we give.

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1. subscribed ◴[] No.43524577{3}[source]
Check if GrapheneOS suits your needs. It has "contact scopes", ie you cna literally allow the app to see single contact only.

Same with storage scopes: one directory and that's it.