Many apps (social, browsers, games) request contact access even when it's unnecessary. Allowing access lets apps upload and ...

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On the internet, a rule of thumb is that if you let apps access your data, they will try to scrape pretty much all of it and store it on remote servers until they no longer need it. Of course, there ...