Sarahah harvests your phone contacts for a feature that doesn’t exist yet

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&rd