Friday, February 17, 2012

In the future, iOS will ask the user before downloading contact details

Some time ago one of the social application Active Path was subjected to criticism for its ability to download contact information to the server without notice to the owner of a smartphone. However, the market has a significant number of other applications, which are also charged with the contact information you can notify that he was not putting. These include applications like Instagram, Facebook, Foursquare and others who use these data to search for other people. In the case of the Path, the developer apologized and released an update that has created a "patch", which forces the unit to report the transfer of contact data. Nevertheless, the company Apple, which was implicated in the scandal as a software developer smartphone iPhone, decided to make their own adjustments that in the future to avoid similar incidents. According to unofficial information, soon to be released OS update iOS, which is a pop-up message will notify the user about the possibility of transferring contact information. The owner of the device itself will allow the program to decide whether or not to transmit the information. The decision will be made ​​similar to the prevention of transmission of information on the location of the device. Applications that do not support this feature will not appear in the App Store. Apple has not yet informed about when to upgrade the operating system with built-in warning about the transfer of contact information will be released.

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