The answer to how come a journalist was added to the confidential #signal chat group where the USG planned war crimes has been revealed: a "smart" Apple function that tries to add unknown numbers to your contacts whenever it guesses they are related
> inadvertently ended up saving Goldberg’s number in his iPhone – under the contact card for Hughes, now the spokesperson for the national security council.
> According to the White House, the number was erroneously saved during a “contact suggestion update” by Waltz’s iPhone
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/06/signal-group-chat-leak-how-it-happened
@tobychev I that a real Apple feature? It sounds like it would be totally illegal anywhere that has any privacy laws (EU, California, and so on).
@david_chisnall
I think it seems ok from a privacy standpoint, it could just be a program on your phone that scans messages from your contacts for things that look like phone numbers and then suggests those should be added to the contact that sent it.
@tobychev