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Privacy is an underrated advantage in Slack apps

by alance·17h ago·2 comments·view on hn ↗
Maybe more of a big deal should be made about the flood of internal private company information that can pass through to third-party Slack app developers?

I suspect most that install Slack apps aren't aware (or don't care?) that their entire list of employees and Slack profiles can get shipped out pretty easily. Anyway here's a little blog-spam on it, enjoy.

https://dibsonstuff.com/privacy-concerns-queue-bot-vs-dibs-on-stuff.html

(written by me, not ai)

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cause many admins just click install without looking at the fine print, which grants apps access to far more channel history and user data than they actually need to function.