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Notice how they casually slip in "..and occasionally updating". This means that Twitter now has a nice list of all apps on your Mobile via the malicious Twitter
by suprgeek 11y ago
Notice how they casually slip in "..and occasionally updating". This means that Twitter now has a nice list of all apps on your Mobile via the malicious Twitter app that snoops on your phone.
They get to then sell this info to advertisers so that they can tailor their "tweets" to you.
And Twitter is a relatively good citizen as far as apps go. Just imagine what other apps who don't care where their next buck comes from are capable of...truly scary stuff.
- dm2 11y agoThe worse problem is that even if you do research on the developers and owners of an app before allowing a permission that warrants a lot of trust, they can at any time be sold to a scummy company or data-mining agency who exploits the trusting user-base. This is exactly what happened to SourceForge.