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by droithomme
5224 days ago
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The article's headline seems misleading. In the article itself it seems like what they are really saying is that due to file permissions it is technically possible for applications to access this data, not that it is something these companies are actively doing. They "can" access private data, which is not surprising, but it is not established that they "do" access it. |
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I've mentioned this here before: look at something like the weather channel app on Amazon's app store, which requests an astonishing array of permissions, including the permission to dial out silently without your interaction.
The Android apps, like Facebook apps, are overreaching, and training users to accept the incursion in order to use well known apps, leaving them more likely to accept the same from obscure apps.