Sarahah, the anonymous feedback app that’s been going viral for the past couple weeks, may not be as private as it sounds: it turns out, the app uploads users’ phone contacts to the company’s servers, seemingly for no good reason. The behavior was spotted by security analyst Zachary Julian and first reported by The Intercept.

Zain al-Abidin Tawfiq, the app’s founder, said that contact lists are being uploaded “for a planned ‘find your friends’ feature” that was “delayed due to a technical issue.” After The Intercept pointed out the behavior, he tweeted “the data request will be removed on next update” and that Sarahah’s servers don’t “currently host contacts.”

But users who do grant access to their contacts list probably expect it to add some sort of functionality to the app. And as of now, it doesn’t. There’s no friends list inside the app. And while there’s a search feature, you can’t look people up by phone number. Nor is there a section, like in Instagram, to show which of your contacts are already using the service.

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