and what about Apple which left apps to get addresses book's user ? Re: [governance] Google Caught Tracking Safari Users: What You Need to Know

[Daniel Kalchev]

On 20.02.12 11:06, Marie GEORGES wrote:
>
> Do we have to loose our time to complain every 6 months  on new 
> IT/criminal practices from  dominant IT companies ! !

The problem is, that most infringements are in fact done by small 
companies. As is the case with Apple's platform -- Apple by default has 
access to your address book -- in general, if you don't like that you 
don't buy their devices. The only "safe" way is if you build your own 
devices, but this is beyond the capabilities of most of the population 
so they settle for some level of trust -- to their mobile device vendor, 
to their communications company and for their software services.

But, it is entirely possible and perhaps the way those companies conduct 
their business to use a "fuse" company, who will publish the rogue 
application -- so that it can steal your data and give it in hands of 
someone else, be it Google, BBC, Procter & Gamble (to name just few), or 
perhaps in the hands of those non-existent US and elsewhere "secret 
service" para-governmental structures. In the not so politicaly correct 
speech, we call all those collectively "The Mafia".

Trouble is, that one trades their privacy in exchange for the 
convenience of communication. This has been so always in human society, 
not something recent with computers, mobile devices and the Internet.

Daniel

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