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What IOS iPhone permission do grant the app that allows this? Is it "Allow Access to Contacts"? I mean, there's a difference between allowing say, an app to be

What IOS iPhone permission do grant the app that allows this? Is it "Allow Access to Contacts"? I mean, there's a difference between allowing say, an app to be able to lookup and dial a phone entry, and an app getting call logs They need to split that permission if it is combined with other stuff.

domevent 9y ago
remember one thing though: the phone OS (Android or, less likely, iOS) developers are as much at fault as FB on this one. From that and other comments it seems like this story may not apply to iOS?
- hellofunk 9y ago
  I've had the FB app on my iPhone for years and I just checked the FB zip file download of user data, and my contact info html file is empty.
eridius 9y ago
None. It’s impossible for an app to get this info on iOS, at least, not without jailbreaking the device first. This story must be about Android.
0x0 9y ago
Apps written by "mere mortals" probably can't get that information. But there's a whole API called "CoreTelephony" that's mostly gated behind an entitlement, http://iphonedevwiki.net/index.php/CoreTelephony.framework http://iphonedevwiki.net/index.php/CoreTelephony.framework I used to think Apple would never grant this entitlement to any other apps other than those that are builtin to iOS, but then there was that whole Uber framebuffer capture entitlement scandal...
- sah2ed 9y ago
  Did the scandal actually happen? The articles I found only talked of the possibility for abuse by Uber. https://www.macrumors.com/2017/10/05/uber-removing-apple-granted-api/ https://www.macrumors.com/2017/10/05/uber-removing-apple-gra...
  - 0x0 9y ago
    The big deal isn't what uber did or did not do with their magic provisioning profile. It's the fact that Apple apparently sometimes hands out god-mode provisioning profiles to 3rd party developers at all.
IBM 9y ago
Pretty sure there's no API to access call logs. I know India's government wanted to create an app on iOS that could access that, purportedly for blocking spam, but Apple said no.

domevent 9y ago

remember one thing though: the phone OS (Android or, less likely, iOS) developers are as much at fault as FB on this one. From that and other comments it seems like this story may not apply to iOS?

hellofunk 9y ago
I've had the FB app on my iPhone for years and I just checked the FB zip file download of user data, and my contact info html file is empty.

eridius 9y ago

None. It’s impossible for an app to get this info on iOS, at least, not without jailbreaking the device first. This story must be about Android.

0x0 9y ago

Apps written by "mere mortals" probably can't get that information. But there's a whole API called "CoreTelephony" that's mostly gated behind an entitlement, http://iphonedevwiki.net/index.php/CoreTelephony.framework http://iphonedevwiki.net/index.php/CoreTelephony.framework I used to think Apple would never grant this entitlement to any other apps other than those that are builtin to iOS, but then there was that whole Uber framebuffer capture entitlement scandal...

sah2ed 9y ago
Did the scandal actually happen? The articles I found only talked of the possibility for abuse by Uber. https://www.macrumors.com/2017/10/05/uber-removing-apple-granted-api/ https://www.macrumors.com/2017/10/05/uber-removing-apple-gra...
- 0x0 9y ago
  The big deal isn't what uber did or did not do with their magic provisioning profile. It's the fact that Apple apparently sometimes hands out god-mode provisioning profiles to 3rd party developers at all.

IBM 9y ago

Pretty sure there's no API to access call logs. I know India's government wanted to create an app on iOS that could access that, purportedly for blocking spam, but Apple said no.