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Transcript by www.newsy.com BY EVAN THOMAS ANCHOR CHRISTINA HARTMAN First, your address book isn't private. And now — any photos or video you've taken on your iPhone or iPad are up for grabs, too. The New York Times is reporting another vulnerability in the way iOS handles app privacy. If a user lets an application access location data, the app can also grab the user's entire photo library and dump it to remote servers. Developers said they knew about the ability, but assumed Apple would catch malicious apps at the door. And for what it's worth, the Times has yet to find any apps in the App Store that download photos this way. But why do location apps need access to photos in the first place? The Next Web thinks it has something to do with the way iOS assigns location information. "Ostensibly, an application that requested access to a user's location is being given access to the photo library due to its use of the geolocation feature, which embeds a location in a photograph. Why this is necessary for all location-based apps is the real question here." Business Insider says closely associating location data and photos could be very bad news. "...once your photos are uploaded to an external server, there's nothing that can be done to get them back. And if your photos contain location data in them, some creeper could put together a history of where you've been." On top of that, as ReadWriteWeb points out, lots of people use their iPhones as their go-to cameras nowadays <b>...</b> |
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