[SailfishDevel] Harbour compliant way to read contacts

[Andrey Kozhevnikov]

issue not in app permissions. issue in restriction access to "cloud" 
contacts got from 3rd party services, and so on

On 27.01.2014 00:21, Marcin M. wrote:
> And wouldn't separate permission for each app solve the thing?
> --
> Marcin
>
>
> 2014-01-26 Bernd Wachter <bernd.wachter at jolla.com 
> <mailto:bernd.wachter at jolla.com>>
>
>     <christopher.lamb at thurweb.ch <mailto:christopher.lamb at thurweb.ch>>
>     writes:
>
>     > Hi Sven
>     >
>     > I am equally curious:
>     >
>     > Reading and rereading Bernd's mail I see
>     >
>     > " ..contacts synced to the device from some third party services..."
>     >
>     > I entered all the contacts on my phone myself (most via
>     bluetooth from
>     > the N9). No third parties are involved at all. So surely my apps
>     > should have full readonly access.
>     >
>     > If the source is an issue, then the source should be an attribute of
>     > each contact, thus allowing apps access to kosher contacts, and
>     > barring access to those from third parties.
>
>     That's what we're currently working on.
>
>     > Surely what an app does with the contacts is more important than the
>     > source of the contacts?
>
>     We need to follow the terms of service from where we sync the
>     contacts,
>     or they might revoke our API keys without warning, which then would
>     affect the whole userbase. In doing so we need to allow for creative
>     interpretation of the TOS on their end as well -- we're the ones in
>     trouble if they decide to revoke our API keys after all.
>
>     TLDR: Lawyers are making our contacts middleware unnecessarily
>     complicated, not all features implemented yet.
>
>     Bernd
>
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