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Re:Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to its servers by po on Tuesday February 07, 2012 @10:44PM (#3564937)
It's sensitive depending on what you're going to do with it. If you're a native app and you want to access it so that you can show me my address book in some unique way, then I don't want to be bothered giving permission. If you're a native app that's just a front end to some social network and you're going to shuttle it off to some big database in the sky, then maybe not.

The problem is that this isn't easily enforceable at the API level without the user having to make decisions. The right level of enforcement is at the app review stage.

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Re:Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to its servers by perfunctory on Wednesday February 08, 2012 @06:10AM (#3566092)
> The problem is that this isn't easily enforceable at the API level without the user having to make decisions.

It's not enforceable even WITH the user having to make decisions. The user can not allow the app to upload one kind of data and disallow another (address book). You can only allow ANY upload or no upload at all.

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Re:Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to its servers by rhizome on Thursday February 09, 2012 @11:03PM (#3574451)
That's certainly Apple's intentional business decision, though. It's simple to provide a way for global abook perms as well as for individual apps.
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Re:Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to its servers by charlieok on Wednesday February 15, 2012 @02:07PM (#3595566)
http://allthingsd.com/20120215/apple-app-access-to-contact-d...
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