Twitter appears to address book data when you use a vriendenzoekdienst eighteen months on their own servers to store, as the site has been confirmed. The U.s. Congress, meanwhile, has questions Apple asked for something similar.
A spokesman of the social-networking site, has told the LA Times let you know soon, called the Find Friends service will apply, making it more obvious should be that twitter users address book data to upload when they use the vriendenzoeker for iOS or Android. Although the user now gives permission to the address book to search, it is not clear that Twitter, the address book to their servers save.
The U.s. Congress has in the meantime also ask to Apple about the privacy policy of his address book in iOS. It seems for apps to personal data, and to collect and to own servers to upload.
Applications for iOS can do this without the consent of the user, and so it proved recently when it came out that the app Path data about contact information uploaded to its own servers. The U.s. Congress now wants Apple to know whether enough is being done to the privacy of iOS users. Among other questions asked about the number of apps that user data upload, and which of them first to get permission.
The authorities also want to know why Apple does not have the ability built-in to the gathering of adresboekinformatie impossible to make, unless the user permission is granted. Earlier introduced, the company from Cupertino the ability to location information, or for specific applications or not to give consent. Among others, the Dutch Ministry of Justice already gave the instruction to examine whether the privacy of users was violated.
The U.s. congress wants Apple to February 29, to answer the questions. Apple Wednesday responded with a statement in which the manufacturer has let us know that a new version of iOS to bring to the aforementioned privacy issues to resolve. In a future version of the mobile OS have applications to explicitly get permission from the user to the address book data to upload.