Skype is sharing your contacts

[Rachaelxx]

I am really concerned about the new mobile Skype sharing mutual contacts. They are trying to turn it into a community ala Facebook. I have a personal account for Lit and noticed that I get a lot of friend suggestions from my mutual contacts... even old contacts I deleted or blocked. I only chat with men - one man for the past year or so - and oddly enough all the suggested mutual contacts are women with lit-like names. Subsomeone and Naughtysomeone... you get the idea.

If you are someone who mixes business with personal (which would be dumb anyway) your perverted lit Skype friends are now being suggested to your other (maybe professional or family) friends as mutual contacts.

So there is the potential that grandma is seeing your mutual friend with a name like cumeater69

There are many posts about this on Microsoft's developer forum but this one explains it well.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...-contact/7d3dda62-7624-4b8d-aad6-6a18d17e2053

 

[richard_daily]

I am really concerned about the new mobile Skype sharing mutual contacts. They are trying to turn it into a community ala Facebook. I have a personal account for Lit and noticed that I get a lot of friend suggestions from my mutual contacts... even old contacts I deleted or blocked. I only chat with men - one man for the past year or so - and oddly enough all the suggested mutual contacts are women with lit-like names. Subsomeone and Naughtysomeone... you get the idea.

If you are someone who mixes business with personal (which would be dumb anyway) your perverted lit Skype friends are not being suggested to your other (maybe professional or family) friends as mutual contacts.

So there is the potential that grandma is seeing your mutual friend with a name like cumeater69

There are many posts about this on Microsoft's developer forum but this one explains it well.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...-contact/7d3dda62-7624-4b8d-aad6-6a18d17e2053

How do you think big data makes their money?

If you have a phone, computer, or smart device in your house, data is being collected on you. To think otherwise, is naive and foolish.

 

[coati]

I had only been using Skype for business and family stuff, but finally decided to uninstall it due to the factor you cite. My business contacts don't need to be given clues about my other business contacts.

Also, it was telling me every time certain people who had ever Skyped with me were at their computer and on-line, which I found to be creepy. And, it was always loading updates. I dumped it and am getting along fine without it.

 

[WoundedKnee]

Skype???

I got a smart phone.

 

[about_average]

Or you could select no when it asks for access to your address book.

 

[Rachaelxx]

That is not what it is doing. It is sharing your skype contacts with your other skype contacts and suggesting them as a mutual friend.

Or you could select no when it asks for access to your address book.

 

[about_average]

Oh, well, I have two skype accounts, one for family and one for "other"

 

[nowisthetime]

It's hard to believe that it will automatically share your contacts, I think it will asks for your permission first and you can say no.

 

[Saint_Ann]

I scratched my eye and had to quit using contacts.



What do you all use Skype for? Sharing pooter pics? My guess is they are sharing more than your contacts.