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randohuman
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1 year ago
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app without permission for contact into

We want our app to just have read/write permission to the app folder for backing up some important data for our app users. We don't care to know personal information like username, email and location...
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    randohuman
    1 year ago

    Solved. While the dashboard does force the account_info.read permission, I was able to use the the scope parameter of the oauth2 authorization code flow to request the subset of permissions that we really need   

randohuman's avatar
randohuman
New member | Level 2
1 year ago

Solved. While the dashboard does force the account_info.read permission, I was able to use the the scope parameter of the oauth2 authorization code flow to request the subset of permissions that we really need   

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