Actually, 26% of Android apps have permission to slurp your contacts, including many that have no business doing so. Apple's current approach is much better at

Actually, 26% of Android apps have permission to slurp your contacts, including many that have no business doing so. Apple's current approach is much better at protecting your address book, because it makes apps ask permission at the moment they want access, not upfront when installing (which most users grant blindly). This of course has little to do with curation -- except that curation helps too, in that malicious apps can be blocked. Apple's curated approach is why it literally has 1/100th the malicious attacks of Android. It chokes malware at the distribution point. I noticed you had no response to that point. Source: http://www.darkreading.com/privacy/more-than-25-of-android-apps-know-too-mu/240012705 http://www.darkreading.com/privacy/more-than-25-of-android-a...