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AdiOS Finds iOS Apps Capable of Dumping Users’ Contacts

The latest discussion of privacy invading apps flowed from the discovery that Twitter and some other iPhone apps were uploading users contact lists without their knowledge. Now, a researcher at Veracode has written a small app that allows users to figure out exactly which iOS apps are doing what with their personal data. Angry Birds does it, Citibank does it; Google apps do it, and a number of lesser-known games do it. The Twitter app for iOS has a feature that enables users to scan their phones for contacts whom they’d like to add to their Twitter contacts.

Source: https://threatpost.com/adios-finds-ios-apps-capable-dumping-users-contacts-021712/76233/

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