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They’ve got your contact info because you gave it to them on sign up. We’re talking about things like your contact list and all their info and your connections to them.
Not necessarily, a contract entry can contains multiple items (landline, work phone, personal email, with email, and sometimes address) that you might haven't given to the social network at signup yet.
So blame your friend for giving them that, but that’s not what’s being discussed here. The issue is how the app supposedly gets all of your contacts info from your phone, ie. your phone book. It only does that if you give it reason to and then approve its request to access that.
No, why would I blame my friends instead of those shitty social media and their obsession with building shadow profiles it everyone on earth? This is victim blaming, like blaming your friend when you got your phone stolen at their house because they forgot to lock their door.
You'd blame your friends because they were the ones that gave out your information.
🤣 No it's not. It's more like blaming your friend when they borrowed your phone and then they gave it to someone else and never returned it............because they are to blame.
If someone knocks on my door and asks for all the contacts in my phone, if I give them your details then I am the one to blame, not the person that requested it.