[LearnProg17]

But you do agree that Spotify can read private messages, if it wants to. The news may not be clear about this, but we do need tighter permissions.

[o10449366]

No, I don't.

https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/12/facebooks-messaging-par...

I don't want this to devolve into an argument of semantics, but given NYT's editorial resources there's no doubt they carefully scrutinized how the "read" and "write" would be interpreted by their readership in the context of a negative report about Facebook.

[SmellyGeekBoy]

Well if Facebook say "nothing to see here" then I'll definitely take their word for it.