<p>As <a href="https://github.com/tomhughes" class="user-mention">@tomhughes</a> has said we really need to get the policy side of this decided before legal and technical (both of these are doable).</p>
<p>On the policy side I would want to note, as this has got a bit lost in the discussion, that providing an API to our messaging system is a clear alternative to handing out e-mail addresses (we could limit apps that have access to that, just as we would likely have to do with e-mail access).</p>
<p>And one nice aspect of doing that is that it creates a level playing field between those app/service operators that know what a burden keeping personal information safe is and would rather not have to store the addresses themselves, and those that don't know that yet. I suspect that I don't need to quote all the recent and past issues even quite large organisations have had.</p>
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