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Privacy is an underrated advantage in Slack apps

A developer warns that Slack apps can easily transmit entire employee lists and Slack profiles to third-party developers, a privacy risk many organizations overlook. The blog post, written by the author, highlights the lack of awareness among Slack users about the extent of data shared with app developers.

read1 min views1 publishedAug 16, 2026

| |||||||||||||||| 1 point by | Maybe more of a big deal should be made about the flood of internal private company information that can pass through to third-party Slack app developers? I suspect most that install Slack apps aren't aware (or don't care?) that their entire list of employees and Slack profiles can get shipped out pretty easily. Anyway here's a little blog-spam on it, enjoy. https://dibsonstuff.com/privacy-concerns-queue-bot-vs-dibs-on-stuff.html (written by me, not ai) | ||||||||||||||| |

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