One-Fifth Of Your Apps Are Snatching Your Contact Data

[snakeair]

Right now, a decent majority of your iPhone apps have already accessed your personal data without ever asking for your consent.

Antivirus company Bitdefender looked at over 65,000 apps that are currently available in the App Store. From that analysis, they found that an alarming 18.6% of them can access your address book without you ever knowing about it.

Even more, 41% can track your location data without obtaining your consent

And once they have all of this personal data, much of it is...

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So much for privacy these day's. I bet someone is looking at my car's license plate with Google Earth right now.

Your thoughts on the blog post?

[indybail]

My Androids have always outlined the permissions the about to be downloaded app will have.

The iOS doesn't do this as well? Another reason I love my Android.