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Congress Sends Letter to Apple Questioning Developer Data Access

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Dear Apple, your friends in Washington D.C. want you to answer a few questions. Why don't you have a seat right over there. :eek:

House Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman and Commerce Manufacturing and Trade Subcommittee Chair G.K. Butterfield sent a letter to Apple on Wednesday, following complaints that the smartphone application Path was collecting address book data and storing it on remote servers without permission.
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I don't mind if an application wants my address book data, as long as I have the ability in the OS to deny such requests. No, you cant have my shit, bitch. I am boggled that you can do this with your location, but not your address book.
 
I hope Google Patented showing the user the permissions required by an application before installing it...
 
Monkey God said:
I don't mind if an application wants my address book data, as long as I have the ability in the OS to deny such requests. No, you cant have my shit, bitch. I am boggled that you can do this with your location, but not your address book.
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I thought the same thing. If you're jailbroken, there's a tweak that will treat contacts like locations services and will prompt you if you'd like to give an app access to your contacts.

There really is no excuse for Apple not including a way to prevent apps from getting this info. I'm willing to bet that this feature will be in the next iOS update though
 
I'm surprised that congress is bothering given that the current administration seems to feel that we have no reasonable expectation of privacy when using a public network.
 
dr.stevil said:
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I thought the same thing. If you're jailbroken, there's a tweak that will treat contacts like locations services and will prompt you if you'd like to give an app access to your contacts.

There really is no excuse for Apple not including a way to prevent apps from getting this info. I'm willing to bet that this feature will be in the next iOS update though
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Hindsight is 100%. Like everything Congress does. ;)
 
Azhar said:
Hindsight is 100%. Like everything Congress does. ;)
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lol

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I don't see the point in grilling them. All PC progams have access to everything that is on your hard drive, so what makes phone programs different? It's acceptable on the PC but not on phones?
 
I find it funny how the government is willing to question anyone and everyone about privacy and data collection.

Except themselves...
 
My only real concern is that because YOU have an iPhone, THEY have MY info. Seriously? What the hell is that all about?

Path and Apple have my name, address, home phone number, cell phone, e-mail address and associated picture even though I've never touched their product...how is that acceptable in any way / shape / form?

(and by YOU, I wasn't implying anyone here ;) )
 
Steve said:
My only real concern is that because YOU have an iPhone, THEY have MY info. Seriously? What the hell is that all about?

Path and Apple have my name, address, home phone number, cell phone, e-mail address and associated picture even though I've never touched their product...how is that acceptable in any way / shape / form?
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I said the same thing during the whole DroidDream fiasco. It's especially troubling when you hear people say things like "I don't care if my contacts get stolen" or "I have nothing important on my phone"

I bet your contacts care if they're taken from your phone maliciously.
 
Steve said:
My only real concern is that because YOU have an iPhone, THEY have MY info. Seriously? What the hell is that all about?

Path and Apple have my name, address, home phone number, cell phone, e-mail address and associated picture even though I've never touched their product...how is that acceptable in any way / shape / form?
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I couldn't agree with this sentiment any more. I recently had to deal with this bullshit on the android platform. Co-worker (boss) had been using the Facebook app and recently noticed that everyone on his contacts list was now sitting pretty on his Facebook page... me included. I wasn't too happy to say the least.
 
Monkey God said:
I don't mind if an application wants my address book data, as long as I have the ability in the OS to deny such requests. No, you cant have my shit, bitch. I am boggled that you can do this with your location, but not your address book.
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Unfortunately Apple have a copy of your entire phone, regardless of if you said yes or no to the data sharing.
 
BoogerBomb said:
I don't see the point in grilling them. All PC progams have access to everything that is on your hard drive, so what makes phone programs different? It's acceptable on the PC but not on phones?
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This is not the case unless a program requires admin access to run.. and even then, there are some files and registry locations that it will still be locked out of.
 
dr.stevil said:
wat? perhaps I missed something. What are you talking about?
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Well whenever law enforcement need access to what you have been doing with your iPhone, they simply request it from Apple, who gladly provides an entire image of your phone from their servers, they could pull the info directly from your phone but they get everything that you may have deleted trying to be smart, from Apple.
 
awsiemieniec said:
How is Apple's situation any different than the fiasco that Carrier IQ created for other carriers?
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Apple branded Carrier IQ. It has that Apple magic theft.

With Android you would know this is happening, cause it's open source. With iOS you have to have trust in Apple. I'm happy with the open source.
 
Campaign year,words will be said palms will be greased coffers will be filled and nothing will be done.
 
RE: Location: What makes you think just because you clicked a button that Apple *doesn't* have your location information, or that other apps honor that? (This isn't an Apple-only criticism...). These are the kind of assumptions that end up surprising people later who get wide-eyed and foaming-outraged, but didn't ask the questions or be concerned up front. Most businesses will get away with whatever they are allowed to get away with. Question and challenge them!

RE: Hindsight + Congress: Come on, this is how government often works. That's not a criticism, either. That's how a system of checks and balances and legislation + Judicial Review works. Staying ahead of the curve would just have people crying about how Congress meddles... Us Americans have a problem these days with viewing things in the longer term, and instead just decry the short-term apparent hilarity is things.

I'm happy more people are concerned about their mobile devices (and companies and web sites and cloud services) and how it effects their privacy. I just wish there was more consumer action than lip service (like those iphone owners protesting a store the other week, like seriously, wtf speak with your dollars and get something different).
 
Doesn't Congress have more important things to do, like, oh, say, making a budget? Or reducing the deficit? Or doing something to turn the economy around?
 
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