Episode 16: Contact Discovery in Mobile Messengers!

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May 24, 202146:44Science & Medicine

Contact discovery is a core feature in popular mobile messaging apps such as WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram that lets users grant access to their address book in order to discover which of their contacts are on that messa...

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