Apple Changes Its iOS Policy In Response To Firestorm Of Controversy
by Jay Yarow on Feb 15, 2012, 2:00 PM
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 Applications on the iPhone will not be able to access the contacts of users without explicit permission from users, Apple announced today. In the last two weeks there has been a big controversy over applications scanning users' address books for contacts. The apps are keeping users contacts on their servers in some cases. This has been done without the user knowing it. Apple is going to change that. Here's what a spokesman told All Things D: “Apps that collect or transmit a user’s contact data without their prior permission are in violation of our guidelines. We’re working to make this even better for our customers, and as we have done with location services, any app wishing to access contact data will require explicit user approval in a future software release.” Please follow SAI on Twitter and Facebook.
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