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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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