Android Apps also have a backdoor to your photos

Posted by BernardSwiss on Mar 3, 2012 12:13 PM EDT
Ars Technica; By Megan Geuss
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After throwing Apple into the fire for allowing social networking app Path to access a user's contacts without an explicit warning, further probes revealed that iOS apps could upload pictures from a user's gallery and send them to an unknown server as long as the user allowed the app to see pictures with location data on them. Today, an investigation by the New York Times revealed that Android's permissions system is allowing the same thing, although perhaps in a more nefarious way.

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