Ask HN: Why does the new Dropbox app need contact access?

Not sure if there is a correlation here but recently a bunch of iOS apps have been requesting this information as well, most of which have no good reason for requesting this info.

Is there a good way that attention can be brought to the issue?

It doesn't. That's why I uninstalled it, the same way I do every other app that feature creeps its way towards demanding greater and greater access to my information.

We already know: there's no good reason whatsoever for the app to have access to this kind of information.

I'm guessing so that you can share files with contacts from within the app.

Which you can do using the share intent.

Me, I got fed up with the latest dropbox client update and refused to install it on my device.