The address books fiasco finally comes to an end as Apple says it will make developers ask for permission first
Apple says it will require developers to ask for permission first before they access a user’s address book.
It’s the culmination of a very strange weeklong media blowout that started when a Singapore-based developer discovered that Path was uploading personal contact information from users’ address books without their knowledge. Path apologized and said it would delete all of the user data it had collected this way. That spiraled into a discussion in The New York Times about whether Silicon Valley entrepreneurs have become too cavalier about privacy, by pushing the envelope first and then asking for forgiveness later.
That
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