After Juntos por la Cambio unveiled the app intended for Defenders of Change, the controversy began to reign over the amount of permissions it requests to be used: income to contacts, camera, microphone, among others. Faced with growing doubts on social media, the coalition’s official Twitter account leading to Mauricio Macri as running for president explained the scope of the permissions that users must grant.
In response to the journalist Juan Amorín, the officialism explained that the Camera is used only for the person to put a profile picture, either by taking it out or from the gallery. As for the contacts, the explanation they gave was that in the My List challenge, the user can choose a list of contacts to write to them through Whats App and convince them to vote Macri. As they explained, this information is not stored on the servers and they cannot access it.
It is very important for us to take care of the privacy of users of the Together for Change app. However, we can explain what each of the requested permissions are used for: pic.twitter.com/I0kKJ0zoQc — JxC Together by Change (@juntoscambioar)
July 25, 2019
The most controversial situation occurs with the use of the microphone. As part of the complaints because the google search engine listens to the conversations of users, from Together for Change they explained that the microphone is requested “in the event of needing it for a challenge”.
As there is still no “challenge” in the app that requires the use of the microphone, they indicated that in the next update they will release it. When it comes to calls, the answer that Together for Change gave via Twitter is that it is used if a user wants to use the phone to call someone from My List.
