Snapchat collects the names and phone numbers from your device's contact list if you grant permission, even for people who are not Snapchat users.
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The clause establishes Snapchat's operational practice of accessing contact data upon user permission, while clarifying that disabling this access has direct functional consequences for contact-based features. This framing creates transparency around the relationship between data access authorization and feature availability.
Snapchat's privacy policy now includes expanded language describing how the platform collects, processes, and shares user data. The updated policy discloses additional practices and operational procedures governing user information. Review of the specific added sentences is necessary to determine whether new data collection, retention, or sharing practices are described, or whether existing practices receive clarified disclosure.
View change record →Granting contact access allows Snapchat to collect personal data of individuals who have never consented to Snap's data practices, raising significant third-party privacy concerns.
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"if you provided access to your phone or third party platform contacts to make friending easier, you can change that later on in your app settings. Of course, if you do that, certain features and Services, like finding friends in your contact book, won't work.— Excerpt from Snapchat's Snapchat Privacy Policy
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The clause establishes Snapchat's operational practice of accessing contact data upon user permission, while clarifying that disabling this access has direct functional consequences for contact-based features. This framing creates transparency around the relationship between data access authorization and feature availability.
Granting contact access allows Snapchat to collect personal data of individuals who have never consented to Snap's data practices, raising significant third-party privacy concerns.
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