Nobody who install such a script is going to bother and ask each and everyone on his contactlist for his/her confirmation.
And even if they did, then everybody need to give their permission, since such scripts do not check if that specific contact who you are showing the email of has given his/her permission...
Moreover, the people who want and use such scripts are quite often not even aware of privacy issues and just unknowing youngsters (no offense Chris4). I don't care if they make their email public to everyone and recieve spam and stuff, but I do care about my email which I gave to people in trust.
It also wouldn't be the first time that someone says "I promise I don't give out your email address" and yet run stuff like this script or run
by accident a dodgy program/virus which harvests emails on their computer and mailbox, etc...
There is absolutely no difference between a script like this or a real spy script. Only that it is harder to let people understand that such a script like this is a big privacy invasion too...
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Originally posted by Deco
as I understood the other people they think that if you agree to show your contact's name and email.. it's not invasion of privacy.
It doesn't matter what they
think tbh. It IS an invasion of privacy... As I said, I do not want my email shown by my contacts to other people, it is as simple as that and this should, quite frankly, even not be a discussion but logical common (privacy) sense.
And this rant is mostly about emails, but even for a screen name and even a status this goes just the same.
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