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Dale Price

This is what the iOS contact permission prompt should be

Newer model iPhone mockup. At the top of the screen is a grid of contact pictures and the text “You have 579 contacts. Contact information includes names, emails, photos, phone numbers, addresses and more”. In the lower half of the screen, there is a header “Get permission before sharing contact info” with the text “We're not going to let you betray your friends that easily. You'll need to get their permission to allow ‘Flashlight+ Pro Free HD’ to access their contact info.” At the bottom are two buttons: “Request Permission From 579 Contacts” and “Don’t Share”
14 Dec 2024 at 20:24 | Open on mastodon.online
30 comments
Dale Price

and what the requestees see:

iPhone showing alert: “John Doe wants to share your contact information with ‘Flashlight+ Pro Free HD’. The app ‘Flashlight+ Pro Free HD’ on John’s iPhone will have access to your name, email, phone number, photo, address, and more.” The buttons are: “Allow" “Don’t Allow” “Block John and Delete From Contacts”
14 Dec 2024 at 20:44 | Open on mastodon.online
CM Harrington

@dale_price just the third button is actually needed.

14 Dec 2024 at 21:40 | Open on mastodon.online
Maarten Sneep

@dale_price Exactly, get even with the “We and our 1465 partners value your privacy”. This one is from vice.com.

GDPR dialog. We value your privacy We and our partners store and/or access information on a device, such as cookies and process personal data, such as unique identifiers and standard information sent by a device for personalised advertising and content, advertising and content measurement, audience research and services development. With your permission we and our partners may use precise geolocation data and identification through device scanning. You may click to consent to our and our 1465 partners’ processing as described above.
14 Dec 2024 at 23:18 | Open on mastodon.social
bigiain

@dale_price You left out the “Delete my name and all my details from John’s contacts.”

15 Dec 2024 at 4:45 | Open on aus.social
Fully operational gator system

@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.

An app named shelter, a shortcut labeled freeze apps, and a bunch of social media apps with the shelter icon in the corner.
15 Dec 2024 at 6:15 | Open on fouroclockfarms.club
Daniel Django :verified_rainbow: (Akkoma)
@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?
15 Dec 2024 at 6:35 | Open on kowelenz.social
Eli the Bearded

@dale_price

If you can't remotely revoke the contact info from the dipshit, what good does it really do?

15 Dec 2024 at 6:47 | Open on fed.qaz.red
Radlerin 🚴‍♀️

@dale_price
There is a problem with this:
How should Flashlight+ Pro Free HD be able to contact me to ask for my permission to access my data if it has not already accessed my data?

15 Dec 2024 at 7:42 | Open on troet.cafe
Fred Brooker

@dale_price bullshit

imagine controlling 500 people sharing habits in real life

15 Dec 2024 at 8:33 | Open on witter.cz
Rosie 🌹 :verified_trans: :queercat_lesbian:

@dale_price@mastodon.online same for android tbh
i always deny the permission no matter what

14 Dec 2024 at 21:36 | Open on mk.absturztau.be
Mer-fOKxTOwl

@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.

14 Dec 2024 at 21:42 | Open on chaos.social
Farshid Hakimy / فرشید

@dale_price this is how EVERY contact permission prompt should look like, not only the iOS one.
And there should be an option to share fake data with the app for it to stop asking for this permission.

14 Dec 2024 at 21:55 | Open on chaos.social
su_liam

@farshidhakimy @dale_price That would be an option if we ever found ourselves in the position of owning the things we pay for.

15 Dec 2024 at 0:27 | Open on mas.to
LuckyLuke
Advanced Persistent Teapot

@dale_price yes except the default option and alternate should be the other way around

14 Dec 2024 at 23:11 | Open on hachyderm.io
Mason
Josh

@dale_price People need to look up consent and permission before submitting contact details via any sharing features too lol

15 Dec 2024 at 0:03 | Open on bne.social
Mx Amber Alex (she/it)
Aday

@dale_price the fact that they can share a photo of you with any gen AI seems a more pressing issue to me.

15 Dec 2024 at 1:30 | Open on mas.to
zetabeta

@dale_price

i edited little bit!

possible copyrights belong to actual owner, not for me.

edited picture. prompt in a smartphone screen for asking permission. first option is "allow". second option is "don't allow". third is much bigger than other two, it says "Block John Doe and Delete from contacts!".
15 Dec 2024 at 1:33 | Open on mastodon.social
kat
Fred Brooker
impossibleibex 4Harris

@dale_price is there any reason why a flashlight app needs contact permissions?

15 Dec 2024 at 6:14 | Open on mastodon.social
sebsauvage
David

@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.

15 Dec 2024 at 9:02 | Open on infosec.exchange
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