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Apple Requires User Permission Before Apps Can Access Personal Data in iOS 6

Earlier this year, Apple came under fire from consumers advocates and Congress after it was discovered that apps, most notably Path, were uploading users' entire address books to their servers without alerting users or asking for authorization. Path deleted the information, but a pair of U.S. Congressmen sent a letter to Apple asking for information on the company's data collection policies. More recently, LinkedIn came under fire for transmitting information from iOS calendar entries back to its servers in plain text. In the OS X Mountain Lion beta, Apple began...

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Published By: Mac Rumors - Thursday, 14 June, 2012

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