iPhone photo-slurping loophole sparks app privacy fears
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The extraction of address book information without permission from the user has already raised privacy concerns, heightened this week after Facebook was obliged to deny that its iPhone app was reading private text messages. But contact information is ...
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Report: iOS Loophole Lets Apps Access Your Entire Photo Library
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Once you've given an app permission to access your location data, it can then upload and store all of your photos and videos on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Bilton had an anonymous developer set up a test app to collect photos and location info ...
See all stories on this topic »5 iPhone Apps For Creating a Bokeh Photo Effect
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It can take a bit of practice to achieve a bokeh effect in photos, but these handy iPhone apps add it instantly. Hoping to step up your photography skills? Give one of these apps a try: LensLight ($1) — Simple and user-friendly, LensLight offers ...
See all stories on this topic »iPhone Security Flaw Gives Developers Access to Photos [REPORT]
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In Apple's third major privacy flaw revelation this month, app developers have told The New York Times that they can easily access private photos on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. Appdevelopers told the publication that after you download an app, ...
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The extraction of address book information without permission from the user has already raised privacy concerns, heightened this week after Facebook was obliged to deny that its iPhone app was reading private text messages. But contact information is ...
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| Apple Loophole Gives Developers Access to Photos New York Times (blog) By NICK BILTON | February 28, 2012, 2:31 pm A test application was able to copy aniPhone's photo library after it was given access to location data. SAN FRANCISCO — The private photos on your phone may not be as private as you think. See all stories on this topic » |  New York Times (blog) |
| Report: iOS Apps Can Access Private Photos Without Direct Permission DailyTech Typically, many apps ask for location permission up front only. "It's very strange, because Apple is asking for location permission, but really what it is doing is accessing your entire photo library," said John Casasanta, owner of iPhone app ... See all stories on this topic » |  DailyTech |
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Once you've given an app permission to access your location data, it can then upload and store all of your photos and videos on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Bilton had an anonymous developer set up a test app to collect photos and location info ...
See all stories on this topic »5 iPhone Apps For Creating a Bokeh Photo Effect
GeekSugar.com
It can take a bit of practice to achieve a bokeh effect in photos, but these handy iPhone apps add it instantly. Hoping to step up your photography skills? Give one of these apps a try: LensLight ($1) — Simple and user-friendly, LensLight offers ...
See all stories on this topic »iPhone Security Flaw Gives Developers Access to Photos [REPORT]
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In Apple's third major privacy flaw revelation this month, app developers have told The New York Times that they can easily access private photos on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. Appdevelopers told the publication that after you download an app, ...
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| iPhone apps given access to location data can upload a user's entire photo library The Next Web One anonymous developer even created an application called 'PhotoSpy' (which was not posted on the App Store) that used this location permission to upload the photos from the Camera roll of an iPhone. The New York Times asked a developer, who asked not ... See all stories on this topic » |  The Next Web |