-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Opera stated: “Imagine if advertisers or websites had the serial number of your computer after every time you visited, and you couldn’t turn that off,” said Scott Swanson, head of the Opera team that developed App-Tribute, in a phone interview with TPM. “The fact that this [UDID] has been available to advertisers and developers in the first place has never sat well with me.”
Swanson said that potentially, because the UDID stays constant, “companies could collect and share information about a user, and that could be an invasion of privacy.” http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/04/as-apple-stops-apps- from-using-phone-ids-opera-offers-solution.php "Sparrowvsrevolution writes "In the wake of news that the iPhone app Path uploads users' entire contact lists without permission, Forbes dug up a study from a group of researchers at the University of California at Santa Barbara and the International Security Systems Lab that aimed to analyze how and where iPhone apps transmit users' private data. Not only did the researchers find that one in five of the free apps in Apple's app store upload private data back to the apps' creators that could potentially identify users and allow profiles to be built of their activities; they also discovered that programs in Cydia, the most popular platform for unauthorized apps that run only on 'jailbroken' iPhones, tend to leak private data far less frequently than Apple's approved apps. The researchers ran their analysis on 1,407 free apps (PDF) on the two platforms. Of those tested apps, 21 percent of official App Store apps uploaded the user's Unique Device Identifier, for instance, compared with only four percent of unauthorized apps." http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/02/15/0036242/unauthorized-ios- apps-leak-private-data-less-than-approved-ones -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Charset: UTF8 Version: Hush 3.0 Note: This signature can be verified at https://www.hushtools.com/verify wsBcBAEBAgAGBQJP7FzfAAoJEMry4TZLOfxmtRwH/RZsiZTJ5QLCe/OEjDtdmYdrPhwv Ul7mydXBRxHTDwOhGlSLbS5aKCsVFKgjh7CPN7ZAeKtX+cGyhUoegmo2ksKz1nTtICCo 6l5Pw/bswnLFDod3KNmy2N74yZ84Zni9WFE0L8CIf6ZANAXIQUWCP52U9PMhJLu9ha8X XCsbpRr99O/5JXeGXy+5+Njwt3Be7pGnIiIeigiVWqkpHTZho9dthYo8b80sSIFy4dHr qlxWTIKskSg+sga1sfAK172g5rZJAYSPcGRj0lYed89rs1xc4BSDzuzgDg8bNkidpNYy RIku/mKYjryUmI6rDim3OapsQPyD+sJ99VblSic1wJs= =caaA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
