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Title: Bluesky launches ‘privacy-first’ method of uploading your contacts
Post by: HCK on December 23, 2025, 04:05:05 pm
Bluesky launches ‘privacy-first’ method of uploading your contacts

<div class="feat-image">(https://9to5mac.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2025/12/Bluesky-launches-privacy-first-method-of-uploading-your-contacts.jpeg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1600)</div><p>Many social media apps encourage you to give them access to your contacts. If you do so, they will let you know which of your contacts are on the platform so that you can send them a friend request.</p>



<p>This can be problematic because you may not wish to share your online presence with everybody in your contacts, and because you are effectively sharing the personal data of other people without their consent. <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/bluesky/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bluesky[/url] says its own “<a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/privacy/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">privacy[/url]-first” approach is different … </p>



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