If people are THAT suspicious, I wonder, why do they give MA their real name, real address, birth date, bank accounts details, cards AND a lot of MONEY very often? Your contacts are not for MA... but everything else is
It doesn't make any sense at all... unless whining is your second nature and you find a reason to do it in every moment of any given day
edit: IMO if you are that suspicious about this whole platform, you should not use it at all.
No.
Personal information is important and control of your personal data is not "all or nothing".
Each individual draws a line. I enjoy mindark's product and I trust them with my money. They are welcome to know who I am and where I live.
They are not welcome to know where I am geographically at 24/7. They are not welcome to know whom I have in my personal contacts list, nor how frequently I call them. They are not free to browse my photos nor log data regarding what networks I may be connected to at times when I'm not even tHINKING about playing EU.
Personal "Smart" device permissions are a big issue and there is a permissive culture where people are too lazy to sort these things out. Manufacturers and developers are too lazy to bother sorting it out, and the OS developer finds it convenient to coddle that and bunches permissions in odd groupings.
This is encouraged by people who don't care because they can't be bothered to understand. I'm 24 years in the IT industry and had to listen to my idiot ex wife "tell me how the internet works" when she found out about facebook and how harmless it all was.
Guess who is hounding about how horrible they are and wants to be in a class action lawsuit for being treated like a corporate datapoint in a quarterly earnings report now?
It's becoming increasingly important and the good companies that encourage bad habits are also leading you like a lamb to the slaughter to the day when you carelessly give some stupid app the wrong permissions and get your whole life wrecked.
There is nothing wrong or paranoid about paying attention to who has access to your personal information. Just like there's nothing wrong or paranoid about having a lock on your house door. It's common sense.
Anyways it turns out they aren't asking.
To be fair I brought this up again so while I'm sitting here I went and initiated the pocket installer in the play store and here's what it prompted me with:
Photos/Media/Files not sure what they're doing here. They may have created a need for this or current android versions may require them to have this to cache own data related updates, images in news posts, or something that isn't stored in the apps own cache for some reason. In any case, this is minor but may allow them to have (or their app to be used as a key to) data that isn't theirs or relevant to them.
Absolutely needs the camera nobody wants to be dealing with 32 character codes and manual entry on a phone/tablet.
It doesn't NEED to receive data but it is also advertised as providing status updates and whatnot so there you go. Just what I love in my 2fa security fob, an open push channel for external data.
So anyways sorry to bring it up. I initiated the pocket app install from my device earlier on and would swear that it specifically listed contacts which caused me to halt the install. I'm not sure if that was a mistake on my part or if it has changed since. The last update was over a year ago but I haven't actually checked since it was first released, just kicking around things said on the forum for chatter.
I never mind stirring the pot a little. But I wouldn't push for drama on this because as android apps go, this is a totally reasonable permission list. I've no interest or idea what's happening in IOS.
As for paying attention to who has access to your personal data and why - it's 100% important. The number of people in the world who said things like "that's paranoid and idiotic" and then end up getting screwed is growing every day.
In the meantime, I find Google Authenticator to be an acceptable compromise and I'm running this 2fa on my EU account now without entropia pocket. One more app that won't be buzzing my phone at odd hours reminding me to come spend money.
