BeReal may ask for access to your phone's contact list to help you find friends on the platform. This means contact data from people who have not agreed to BeReal's terms is uploaded to BeReal's servers.
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The provision establishes a permissioning mechanism for contact data access, making friend discovery functionality dependent on user authorization. This defines the operational conditions under which BeReal processes contact information from a user's device.
Granting contact access gives BeReal data about non-users in your network without their knowledge or consent, which raises significant third-party privacy concerns.
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"You can decide to allow BeReal to access your address book to identify the friends in your Address Book who may already be on BeReal or to recommend you new friends. We do not access your Address Book without your permission.— Excerpt from BeReal's BeReal Privacy Policy
Third-party contact data collection implicates GDPR Article 6 legitimate interests balancing tests and has been an enforcement focus for EU data protection authorities; companies must ensure the processing of non-user contact data has a lawful basis and is disclosed transparently.
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The provision establishes a permissioning mechanism for contact data access, making friend discovery functionality dependent on user authorization. This defines the operational conditions under which BeReal processes contact information from a user's device.
Granting contact access gives BeReal data about non-users in your network without their knowledge or consent, which raises significant third-party privacy concerns.
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