XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: mariasophia@comprehension.com   
      
   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: ?   
      
      
   --   
   I'm making a normative argument about courtesy, consent and basic respect.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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