February 2012
4 posts
Stealing Your Address Book
John Gruber in response to Dustin Curtis:
I understand that Apple doesn’t want us to be badgered by too many permission-granting alerts, but address book data is sensitive enough to warrant it, in my opinion. Why not treat it like they do location data?
It may seem like a gaffe on Apple’s part at first glance, but I think it’s because address book upload is an edge case that...
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Arguments Against Using Facebook Connect as Your... →
Buzz Anderson, commenting on Bijan Sabet’s post:
For the (I suspect rapidly growing) portion of us who only grudgingly maintain any sort of Facebook presence, it’s like asking us to reaffirm our commitment to a religion before being allowed to eat in your restaurant.
I wholeheartedly agree with this, but it’s not the thing that bothers me the most about Facebook-based...