Apple quietly rolled out a raw set of rules for developers last week , adding limitation for apps that suck up the address books of iPhone users , Bloomberg reports . developer could , for representative , deal the databases fill with your friends ’ contact information to hike their bottom lines . No more .
computer address book requests are evenhandedly distinctive . Instagram or Snapchat may ask for your destination Scripture so they can hint your contacts as connection on their platforms . Some game may want the information to invite friends to download and spiel with you . Those are more benign cases . A less benign one : hoover up data to build consumer model and sway elections .
Facebook infamously enabled Cambridge Analytica to glean exploiter data . Apple ’s move comes as CEO Tim Cook hascriticized Facebookfor its mishandling of that information .
Additionally , the Modern rules prohibit developers from accessing your friends ’ information simply because you — not they — give consent . Apps also ca n’t reuse data ; if they want to use touch data for something else , they have to get consent again . But , as Bloomberg promissory note , nothing can be done about the data point that ’s already been share .
“ The destination book is the Wild West of data , ’’ an iOS developer said to Bloomberg . “ I am able to instantly transplant all the contacts info into some random server or upload it to Dropbox if I desire to , the very moment a user articulate okay to giving contacts license . Apple does n’t track it , nor do they know where it went . ”
[ Bloomberg ]
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