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Re:Apple will require apps to ask users for permission to ad... by cewawa on Wednesday February 15, 2012 @04:45PM (#3596231)
Seems to me the flaw in the plan here is that we're talking about asking the user for permission, when we should be asking the contact. I don't want Path to have my contact details, but anyone who has me in their address book is able to provide them. Asking the user for address book permission doesn't fix that.
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Re:Apple will require apps to ask users for permission to ad... by harryh on Wednesday February 15, 2012 @06:04PM (#3596567)
You're basically asking for DRM on your contact details. That's not going to work.
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Re:Apple will require apps to ask users for permission to ad... by cewawa on Wednesday February 15, 2012 @06:14PM (#3596608)
Um, you proposed "DRM on your contact details", not me.
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Re:Apple will require apps to ask users for permission to ad... by harryh on Wednesday February 15, 2012 @07:06PM (#3596777)
If you give your contact information to another person but what to technologically restrict how that information can be disseminated after that you are asking for DRM.
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Re:Apple will require apps to ask users for permission to ad... by cewawa on Wednesday February 15, 2012 @08:59PM (#3597042)
My comment wasn't asking for anything. I was pointing out that an "allow access to address book" dialog wasn't going to solve the underlying problem, which is that unlike location services, the data you are giving access to is someone else's.
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Re:Apple will require apps to ask users for permission to ad... by huhtenberg on Wednesday February 15, 2012 @05:51PM (#3596526)
The issue you describe is not "fixable" in principle.
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Re:Apple will require apps to ask users for permission to ad... by cewawa on Wednesday February 15, 2012 @06:17PM (#3596621)
You can discover friends using a service without allowing wholesale access to address books.
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