From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2026-02-12 01:41, Maria Sophia wrote:   
   > Andy Burns wrote:   
   >> Maria Sophia wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Did you get that number from the GUI or from dumpsys?   
   >>   
   >> The Permissions Manager in Settings.   
   >   
   > Thanks. I don't trust that GUI for the stated reasons.   
   > But even so, your number (17) is more realistic given how many system apps   
   > have read permission on the contacts that can't be revoked sans rooting.   
   >   
   > Since this question is really all about basic human decency, and since I'm   
   > well aware what everyone else but me does, the thread is really opened to   
   > learn more about contacts and to help teach why they're so dangerous.   
   >   
   > There were people on the other thread who claimed they had complete control   
   > of their contacts, where this thread pretty much proves that a fallacy.   
      
   Arlen, that a number of apps have read access to the contact list is of   
   no consequence at all.   
      
   My privacy and that of my contacts is safe.   
      
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           Carlos E.R.   
      
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