XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2026-02-10 14:03, Maria Sophia wrote:   
   > Frank Slootweg wrote:   
   >>>>   That one's Contacts are stored "on the cloud"/"in the cloud" (i.e.   
   >>>> meaningless FUD/scare-mongering), while   
   >>>> ignoring - or 'conveniently', dishonestly, silently, snipping - my/our   
   >>>> arguments to the contrary.   
   >>   
   >>   Of course yours are *not* "facts", but that's what you posted and I/we   
   >> 'disagree with'.   
   >   
   > Hi Frank,   
   >   
   > Speak for yourself please.   
   >   
   > There is one "fact" that you need to comprehend at the technical level.   
   > If you comprehend that fact, then you should state that fact here & now.   
   >   
   > Since I wouldn't ask you to state a fact that I wouldn't state myself,   
   > I'll answer the question below and then ask you the *same* question.   
   >   
   > Q: Where are all my Android mobile-device contacts actually stored?   
   > A: They were stored in /data/data inside the "Conversation settings"   
   > field in the last-known-good-version of PulseSMS but I've moved them   
   >    to the internal storage of DOpen Contacts & into a Windows vCard file.   
   >    My Android Contacts.db is empty and therefore nothing is "on the cloud".   
   >   
   > You can dispute what "on the cloud" means until the end of time, but what   
   > it means is not on your personal devices anymore so that you lost control.   
   >   
   > Speaking for myself, uploading someone else's personal information without   
   > their knowledge or consent is inherently discourteous regardless of the   
   > uploader's intentions. You may or may not be as caring as I am on that.   
   >   
   > The privacy decency point is I know exactly where my contacts are stored.   
   > Now let's ask you to answer the same question of fact that I just did.   
   >   
   > Q: Where are all *your* Android mobile-device contacts actually stored?   
   > A: ?   
      
   In our phones, with a copy in our private area of google servers. Under   
   our control.   
      
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