<p>The permission "allow_read_prefs", text  "read your user preferences.", allows not only access to what is defined as user preferences in the API (the key - value store), but allows accessing the user details,</p>
<p>On the other hand the "allow_write_prefs" does actually only allow writing to the "user preferences" (which is not a surprise given that there is no API for writing to the user details).</p>
<p>Not sure if we need to change something (that is why there is no PR yet), but it is slightly confusing and asymmetric, Maybe simply changing the text to: "read your user details and preferences"  would clarify this enough?</p>

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