NW-Bound
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My wife and I both use Android phones. Recently, my sister-in-law talked my wife into installing Viber on her phone. I have heard of this app, which allows you to talk to another Viber user by VOIP, but never bothered to install it.
In the process of setting up the Viber app on her phone, my wife got to a point where it asked to access her contact list. She asked me whether she should, and I said perhaps it was best to deny it for now, and to enable it later. So, she clicked on "No". Further down, Viber asked for her birthdate. At that point, she decided that the stupid app was too intrusive, aborted the set up and uninstalled the app.
One hour later, my sister-in-law called my wife, and said Viber alerted her that my wife was now accessible via the app.
What the hell! She already denied the contact list access, and aborted the setup. How the hell did Android let this app get to her address book?
This is a serious problem on the part of Google, or Samsung who makes the phone. This pissed me off royally.
In the process of setting up the Viber app on her phone, my wife got to a point where it asked to access her contact list. She asked me whether she should, and I said perhaps it was best to deny it for now, and to enable it later. So, she clicked on "No". Further down, Viber asked for her birthdate. At that point, she decided that the stupid app was too intrusive, aborted the set up and uninstalled the app.
One hour later, my sister-in-law called my wife, and said Viber alerted her that my wife was now accessible via the app.
What the hell! She already denied the contact list access, and aborted the setup. How the hell did Android let this app get to her address book?
This is a serious problem on the part of Google, or Samsung who makes the phone. This pissed me off royally.