Apple: We’re Going to Finally Start Protecting Your Privacy Now
February 15, 2012 in Commentary, News
About a week ago news came out that Apple had a flaw in their iOS system that allowed app developers unfettered access to your phone book. 聽Developers could transmit the contents of your phone book to their servers if they so chose to do so. 聽In a letter from聽House Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman and Commerce Manufacturing and Trade Subcommittee Chair G.K. Butterfield to Apple CEO Tim Cook, concerns were addressed over the handling of applications with address book access. 聽The letter states “One blogger claims to have conducted a survey of developers of popular iOS apps and found that 13 of 15 had a 鈥渃ontacts database with millions of records鈥 鈥 with one claiming to have a database containing 鈥淢ark Zuckerberg鈥檚 cell phone number, Larry Ellison鈥檚 home phone number and Bill Gates鈥 cell phone number.” 聽All of this begs the question, why didn’t Apple have basic safeguards against this sort of thing set up to begin with? 聽An Apple spokesman said “Apps that collect or transmit a user鈥檚 contact data without their prior permission are in violation of our guidelines”. 聽My response to that is, NO KIDDING?! 聽Obviously they’d be in violation, but the real question is why were they able to do it in the first place? 聽Apple has failed at a very basic fundamental of this industry…PROTECT PEOPLE’S INFORMATION. 聽Apple didn’t get hacked, there was no break in, Apple simply left the door open and allowed anybody to walk through it as they pleased. 聽Apple states “we鈥檙e working to make this even better for our customers, and as we have done with location services, any app wishing to access contact data will require explicit user approval in a future software release.” 聽Well now doesn’t that make us all feel so much better…Apple is finally going to get around to protecting my privacy. 聽Well isn’t that nice. 聽Better ridiculously late than never I suppose.
Source: 聽allthingsd
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