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1. This is far from frivolous. 2. The "very content majority" are just people who, reasonably enough, never even thought about the possibility that apps were d
by monochromatic 15y ago
1. This is far from frivolous.
2. The "very content majority" are just people who, reasonably enough, never even thought about the possibility that apps were doing underhanded things like this.
- Turing_Machine 15y agoExactly. Think of it this way: A salesman is visiting a customer's home or office. The customer goes to the bathroom. When the customer comes back, he finds the salesman has picked up the customer's phone, called another salesman back at headquarters, and is going through the contact list and reading all the info out to the other salesman. Will the customer be happy? No, he will not. Will he be satisfied if the salesman then issues a non-apology apology ("we're sorry if you were offended"), claims that he was only doing it to "help the customer connect better", or tries to blame it on the customer and/or the phone manufacturer because the information wasn't locked? No, he will not. In general, right and wrong don't change just because the action is carried out by software rather than direct human intervention.