@x42 well all work stuff uses google and slack, telegram is only for talking with family and friends so it won't be a problem.
in any case all team meetings go through "AI" 🤮 for notes and other things, GDPR is out of the window already

@falktx google and slack are fine with regard that they don't require access to your whole contact list and notify others about it: "your competitor has just joined telegram" :)

@x42 I never saw such thing and honestly have no idea what that is about.
What "contact list"? email is kept separate, so not that... sms and phone calls are not on the smartphone, so there is nothing to read from there...

do people really keep a centralized list of all their contacts?

I have people scattered around:
- IRC
- telegram
- signal
- line (korean chat app thing)
- sms/calls
- email threads
- nextcloud chat

very few are in more than 1

@falktx @x42

I think the "contact list" thing is more something happening on your phone, not so much on your Linux computer.

@nielso separation of tasks and devices helps here then. Only the "dumb" phone has a sort of shared contact list

I agree with @x42 regarding #Telegram. You might want to read about some of the privacy/security implications in this recent investigation: https://www.occrp.org/en/investigation/telegram-the-fsb-and-the-man-in-the-middle @falktx

@thisven @x42 noted, and left whatsapp for somewhat similar reasons.

I was able to convince some family members to leave whatsapp for telegram, I am not able to convince them to switch to signal.

I also use regular phone calls for friends&family sometimes too, which would be even worse privacy-wise.

@falktx @thisven

Personal communication is different subject.

I was mentioning this since you mentioned/showed "telegram on work system", which is usually a no-go.

@x42 @thisven ah well its just for talking with family and friends stuff, not really work related.

though the CEO has my contact there there for emergencies