On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 2:36 PM, sharedwd <[email protected]> wrote:

> How can I be assured the app doesn't instantly collect all my contact
> information for it's own marketing promotions or something else?
>

You can't.


> I guess what I'm wanting to know is: If an app has "read contact data"
> permission for a unique feature of the app, does that mean it can also
> send a compilation of all my contacts' information to its data
> warehouse?
>

Pretty much.


> Or does it only have access to my Contacts when I initiate the special
> feature within the app?
>

How would you enforce that?

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