Glad I made a video on this last night for YouTube. That's scary. I never allow Photos or Contacts permission. There are too many messed up scenarios where devs will steal that info.
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Apple's New App Store Guidelines Restrict Apps From Harvesting Data From iPhone Users' Friends
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Didn’t read article yet, but is there really any effective way of broadly enforcing this?
Would seem to me it would be difficult for Apple to know who is doing what with contact data after they capture it.
And for someone who’s business model is “get the data and sell it”, getting banned from the store after the fact doesn’t seem like much (esp if they can create another dev account and start over under a proxy.)
My thought is that Apple needs more granular contact info release controls in the privacy settings.
Would seem to me it would be difficult for Apple to know who is doing what with contact data after they capture it.
And for someone who’s business model is “get the data and sell it”, getting banned from the store after the fact doesn’t seem like much (esp if they can create another dev account and start over under a proxy.)
My thought is that Apple needs more granular contact info release controls in the privacy settings.
You can also be thrown off the app store if you click the box and then go against it.