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This provision establishes the operational basis for contact-list-based friend recommendation systems and social graph construction. It permits the service to aggregate contact data from multiple user sources—both directly from individual devices and indirectly from other users' submissions—to power matching and personalization functions.
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 →Users who grant permission authorize Snapchat to access and process their stored contact lists for the stated purposes of friend matching and service personalization. Additionally, the terms authorize the service to receive and use contact information about a given user when other Snapchat users submit that user's phone number or email address to the platform.
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"If you permit us to, we may collect the phone numbers of your friends and other contacts in your mobile device's contact list. We may also obtain information about you from other Snap users, such as when a friend uploads your phone number or email address. We use contact information to help you find your friends on Snapchat, to suggest friends and connections for you and others, and to provide and personalize our services.— Excerpt from Snapchat's Snapchat Privacy Policy
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This provision establishes the operational basis for contact-list-based friend recommendation systems and social graph construction. It permits the service to aggregate contact data from multiple user sources—both directly from individual devices and indirectly from other users' submissions—to power matching and personalization functions.
Users who grant permission authorize Snapchat to access and process their stored contact lists for the stated purposes of friend matching and service personalization. Additionally, the terms authorize the service to receive and use contact information about a given user when other Snapchat users submit that user's phone number or email address to the platform.
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