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Title: Most popular Android app caught harvesting users contacts: Facebook
Post by: HCK on July 01, 2013, 11:01:21 pm
Most popular Android app caught harvesting users contacts: Facebook
         


Facebook, the top-ranking free app in Google Play, has taken advantage of Android's weak platform security to collect users' phone numbers as soon as the app is installed, highlighting core differences in Apple's approach to protecting users' privacy and those of social-advertising firms like Facebook and Google.
         

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