In an article on Northern Voices Online (NVO) the issues of privacy and iPhone applications is addressed. iPhone users share so much personal data on their phone and with many of the applications such as Facebook, Twitter, & Foursquare. Do you wonder where all of this information is stored and who exactly can see it? I do. Apple has recently gotten into a few messy situations with Congress. After congressman Henry Waxman sent a letter to the CEO of Apple (Tim Cook), Apple released the following statement...
"Apps that collect or transmit a user’s contact data without their prior permission are in violation of our guidelines. We’re 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."
With this statement, I believe that Apple has a lot of work to do in order to tighten up their privacy policies. The amount of personal information that is circulating in the hands of Apple is a dangerous situation. They need to buckle down and tighten up the loose ends with this issue before there is a real problem.
Source: http://nvonews.com/2012/02/17/iphone-privacy-problems-no-end-in-sight/
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