Adds from Address Book w/out Permission! - Felix01

Go to Prefs --> General and Uncheck the box "Show Address Book Contacts."

Now wasn't that simple?

And as a gesture of thanks, you can give the app a five star.

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Wednesday, February 13 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST

Adds from Address Book w/out Permission! - Gent.m@c

Well, yes there is a way to undo that behavior. But this alone does not justify the five stars as felix01 suggested. Since Skype is closed source and I furthermore don't log network traffic and analyze it here I only can speculate what happens else...
Imagine: a chat-system that is broadcasting information of unknown content _might_ also broadcast the content of your buddy-list - along with the names maybe some phone-numbers and email-addresses? What's the point in turning this behavior off, _after_ you figured this once it already logged into the system?

Go figure - and rethink the call for five stars.

Ah, and add this is point 2 (h) in the PrivacyPolicy of Skype (<http://www.skype.com/intl/en/legal/privacy/general/#2>) to your thoughts:

2. WHAT INFORMATION DOES SKYPE COLLECT?
Skype may gather and process information about you, including (but not limited to) information in the following categories:
...
(h) List of your contacts;
...

Personally I think this behavior is _maybe_ a nice feature and should be disabled by default. Since there is no way so far to start up this version with the new "feature" disabled I strongly recommend to stick at the older versions if you want to keep your contacts off eBay's grid - wuups.

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Wednesday, February 13 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST

Adds from Address Book w/out Permission! - RockMSockM9NY

Wow, Felix you sure know how to undermine your own credibility by making yourself look like a pompous jack*ss. Great job.

The original poster had a valid point. His rating stands and is supported by the rest of us.

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Tuesday, March 11 2008 @ 12:05 AM PDT

Adds from Address Book w/out Permission! - NekkidRadioDJ

The address book contacts do not get added to your contact list and are not sent to anyone. All that happens is that the Skype software provides access to your numbers in your Address Book without you having to open the Address Book.

Only contacts that you add to Skype are stored online and available on different computers so if you log in to Skype on another computer you will not see your Address Book contacts if that computer doesn't have your Address Book. The Address Book contacts remain local not global.

With years of Skype experience behind me I see no reason to be paranoid about such things.

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Thursday, February 14 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST