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>Person 2: I don't care about privacy, because I don't have anything to hide.

Because of this person's lack of caring, they don't realize that it's not just their privacy that they are sacrificing. By sharing their contacts, they just gave up all of the privacy of those people as well without so much as a hesitation of thought. The person who does care about privacy has 0 chance because of the careless actions of others.

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This is why I never give permission to apps to access my contacts. I wish Apple would have better protections than just a simple permission ask, when once granted, apps can do whatever they want with all of that data.

It's what I hate about whatsapp, I have to use it so I have it installed on my phone but I have to jump through so many hoops to properly isolate it from my contacts.

Unfortunately, I can't not have it, it's too entrenched because most people do not care about privacy.

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