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Bluesky launches 'privacy-first' method of uploading your contacts

Bluesky's Find Friends uses phone verification and hardware encryption to protect data and requires mutual consent before matching users, avoiding spam and privacy risks.

Summary by 9to5Mac
Many social media apps encourage you to give them access to your contacts. If you do so, they will let you know which of your contacts are on the platform so that you can send them a friend request. This can be problematic because you may not wish to share your online presence with everybody in your contacts, and because you are effectively sharing the personal data of other people without their consent. Bluesky says its own “privacy-first” appr…

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9to5Mac broke the news in on Wednesday, December 17, 2025.
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