Adding a member to a group leaks this information to all users.
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gregsexton commented
const grp = await skdb.createGroup();
await grp.setMemberPermission(someUser, "r");
Results in
select * from skdb_group_permissions;
┌─────────┬───────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────┬─────────────┬──────────────┐
│ (index) │ groupID │ userID │ permissions │ skdb_access │
├─────────┼───────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────┼─────────────┼──────────────┤
│ 0 │ '3ZVVNSpKUkylYNO0ZIGm7Ey5oI1' │ 'fA96m2waGvUIAw-dyA9Z3I75IJC' │ 4 │ 'read-write' │
The read-write permission means that all users can see that this user is in the group with permission 4. We should only be sharing this information with the user and group admins.
This info could be used to figure out e.g. a user's friend list or worse depending on the app.