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The controversy over apps that access the address book on peoples' mobile phones has resulted in a privacy lawsuit that names Path, Facebook, Twitter, and Apple, among others.
Apps from these firms "surreptitiously harvest, upload and illegally steal the owner's address book data without the owner's knowledge or consent," according to the lawsuit, which was filed Monday in Texas district court. These uploads "have, quite literally, turned the address book owners' wireless mobile devices into mobile radio beacons broadcasting and publicly exposing the unsuspecting device owner's address book data to the world." »read more
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