Great Apple iOS apps steal your address book.
http://dcurt.is/stealing-your-address-book It's not really a secret, per se, but there's a quiet understanding among many iOS app developers that it is acceptable to send a user's entire address book, without their permission, to remote servers and then store it for future reference. It's common practice, and many companies likely have your address book stored in their database. News to me but I guess I was a sheep following the herd. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:349847 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Great Apple iOS apps steal your address book.
I wonder how many people store passwords in their address book. -Cameron On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Casey Dougall - Uber Website Solutions ca...@uberwebsitesolutions.com wrote: http://dcurt.is/stealing-your-address-book It's not really a secret, per se, but there's a quiet understanding among many iOS app developers that it is acceptable to send a user's entire address book, without their permission, to remote servers and then store it for future reference. It's common practice, and many companies likely have your address book stored in their database. News to me but I guess I was a sheep following the herd. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:349849 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Great Apple iOS apps steal your address book.
There is an addon in cydia for those who jailbreak that helps. It's called ContactPrivacy, and it's free. Now that jail breaking has been ruled not to be DMCA-violating, and it's crazy simple to do, those who are concerned about privacy should learn about that option. What you've described here is a violation of Apple's rules. You should Report a Problem to let Apple know that it bothers you. I wouldn't call it common or even understood as acceptable that developers would do that. I certainly don't. -- ~ Mike Stemle, Jr. On Feb 9, 2012, at 9:48, Cameron Childress camer...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder how many people store passwords in their address book. -Cameron On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Casey Dougall - Uber Website Solutions ca...@uberwebsitesolutions.com wrote: http://dcurt.is/stealing-your-address-book It's not really a secret, per se, but there's a quiet understanding among many iOS app developers that it is acceptable to send a user's entire address book, without their permission, to remote servers and then store it for future reference. It's common practice, and many companies likely have your address book stored in their database. News to me but I guess I was a sheep following the herd. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:349850 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
