{"slug": "privacy-is-an-underrated-advantage-in-slack-apps", "title": "Privacy is an underrated advantage in Slack apps", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "| ||||||||||||||||\n1 point by |\nMaybe 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) | |||||||||||||||\n|", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/privacy-is-an-underrated-advantage-in-slack-apps", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49315895", "published_at": "2026-08-16 01:11:15+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-16 01:40:30.291354+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-ethics"], "entities": ["Slack"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/privacy-is-an-underrated-advantage-in-slack-apps", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/privacy-is-an-underrated-advantage-in-slack-apps.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/privacy-is-an-underrated-advantage-in-slack-apps.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/privacy-is-an-underrated-advantage-in-slack-apps.jsonld"}}