Mac OS Ken: 02.16.2012

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7 • 997 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2012

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Twitter Says Its iOS App Uploads User Address Book Info if They Use the “Find Friends” Feature; Stores Info for Up to 18-Months Congress Seeks Answers Around “Address Book-gate” as Apple Promises Fix in Future iOS Update Reports: Apple Has Amazon China Pull iPad from Its Site Authorities Tell Proview Execs That an iPad Export Ban is Unlikely Apple Seeks Permission from Bankruptcy Judge to Sue Kodak FLA President Pleasantly Surprised by First Look Inside Foxconn Factory AdAge: Apple Drops iAd Commitment to 100-Thousand-Dollars Gartner Says iPhone Sales to Decline This Quarter Versus Last Quarter (and the Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow)

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0:00.0	This is MacO-S-Kinn.
0:07.0	This is MacO-S-Kinn.
0:12.0	Address book issues, come back to the fore. The ProView iPad Fight goes weird and the
0:17.0	president of the FLA is pleasantly surprised by FoxCon conditions. It's Thursday, February 16, 2012. I'm Ken Ray and this is news from
0:28.1	Maco S. Ken. Brought to you by yours truly and supported by listeners like you subscribers to MacoS can Day 6.
0:37.0	More information is available at Macoesscan.com.
0:41.0	This show is also supported by the MacOS Can Podcast app for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch,
0:48.0	available in the App Store now for $2.99.
0:52.0	Apps, taking my address book information, $2.99.
0:53.0	Apps taking my address book information without my knowledge or permission gate has flared up again.
0:59.5	Kind of want a medicated pad for that one.
1:01.8	All things D has Apple responding to reports that iOS
1:04.7	application after iOS application accesses, transmits, and stores user contact
1:10.3	data without explicit permission.
1:13.0	Path did it and apologized.
1:14.9	Hipster did it and apologized,
1:17.0	and planned to hold some application privacy summit.
1:19.9	Twitter even does it with their iOS app.
1:23.0	Well, they know what I eat and when I make, so why shouldn't they?
1:26.2	Macworld UK cites an LA Times piece that has Twitter admitting that if a user uses their
1:31.0	iOS apps find friends feature, then the contents of the user's
1:35.1	address book is uploaded to Twitter's servers and stored for as much as 18 months.
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