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The problem is - this is a contact list manager - so you would expect to give permission to this app to access your contact list.

Ideally apple has contact information for this developer, and, presuming the Developer violated some license with regards to what they can do with user data, Apple can now take legal steps against this developer.



Do you, realistically speking, see Apple doing that? Me neither.

They should really just sandbox the apps and put a proper permission granting system in place.


But this is a contact list management application. It requires access to the address book. Any sandbox that would have been created would have allowed the application access to the contacts, even with the most stringent permissions.


Why not Apple has plenty of lawyers and wants to disuade other people from trying the same thing?




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