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		anonfordays on Nov 9, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Multiple new macOS sandbox escape vulnerabilities >On the other hand, when Telegram asks you to share all your contacts and images with it, people do. This is where Android shines with storage and contacts scopes. You can share an empty scope with the app and it will stop bugging you, and have access to nothing!

Noumenon72 on Nov 9, 2024 | [–]

Can you help me find this? I don't see anything by googling "android contacts scopes" or looking in the contacts settings.

anonfordays on Nov 10, 2024 | | [–]

It may be a GrapheneOS exclusive feature: https://grapheneos.org/usage#contact-scopes

rprwhite on Nov 9, 2024 | [–]

There is a similar option in iOS, where you give an app access to select items only.

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