Apple no longer among the twenty most trusted corporate names
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In 2012, Path was found to collect user's contact lists without permission | |
Back in 2009, Apple finished at number eight, slipping to 12th place in 2010 and hitting 15 the following year before dropping out of the top twenty for 2012. Last year, Apple did have some issues related to privacy. One app, "Path," was uploading users' address books without their permission. That led Apple to change its privacy policy, requiring express consent from a user before an app could obtain contact information. Apple also developed a new tracking tool for developers that lets them collect location data and preferences without collecting information that could identify the user. One iOS app, Clueful, which can detect when mobile software is taking private information, found that 42.5% of 65,000 popular iOS apps collected personal data without encrypting it and 41.4% can access user's locations without permission. 18.6% could obtain a user's contacts list and address book.
source: AppleInsider
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40 Comments
35. Nadr1212 posted on 29 Jan 2013, 22:52 2 0
Haha! That is what you get for putting people's private info all open and what not!!!!!!
2. Aeires (unregistered) posted on 29 Jan 2013, 10:54 12 0
Nothing a lawsuit can't fix.
Oh, wait.
3. tedkord posted on 29 Jan 2013, 10:54 11 0
Look, I know that Apple can't be trusted. But when I read that a poll collects 100,000 responses, but only uses 6,704, I have to question it's validity.
6. gmracer1 posted on 29 Jan 2013, 11:03 4 3
Waaaiit for iiiiiiiit................................*points and laughs*
7. InspectorGadget80 posted on 29 Jan 2013, 11:12 17 3
Looks like people finally realize what kind of company Apple really is.
18. Mxyzptlk posted on 29 Jan 2013, 12:30 3 18
A company that continues to pump out innovative devices that make a lot of money?
20. InspectorGadget80 posted on 29 Jan 2013, 12:43 12 2
Apple hadn't innovate anything. they just buy and design products
21. tedkord posted on 29 Jan 2013, 12:48 15 1
How are you able to communicate with us from 2007?
22. Whateverman posted on 29 Jan 2013, 12:56 6 0
ROFLMAO!!!
37. bipinm posted on 30 Jan 2013, 03:38 1 0
good one dude...rofl...
29. lyndon420 posted on 29 Jan 2013, 18:58 2 0
When apple comes out with a new product and the only change will be the size of the logo on the back, we are confident that you will be in line.
31. jroc74 posted on 29 Jan 2013, 19:41 3 0
One could argu their last real innovation was the iPhone 4 and maybe the iPad. Before that the orig iPhone...or the 3G.....
As for iOS...the orig iOS...and the one that took all those features other OS's had.
Apple is living off past innovations. Thats not a bad thing. Eventually.....some ppl want something new, fresh. RIM lived off past innovations for years...look how thats turning out.
40. ZeroCide posted on 04 Feb 2013, 11:35 0 0
There is no innovation from apple. and what ever there was was created by the RDF.
8. ilia1986 posted on 29 Jan 2013, 11:19 14 3
To trust apple is like to trust an adult man dressed in an old-fashioned beige coat, with black gloves and a mustache - to babysit a 10 year old girl.
It's not just unwise. It's downright retarded.
11. kellkeezy posted on 29 Jan 2013, 11:29 7 0
uhhh....wha...what just happened here?
I wear beige coats and black gloves, I also have a mustache
12. ilia1986 posted on 29 Jan 2013, 11:32 1 0
Then you're probably not aware of this video..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cXDgFwE13g
10. Topcat488 posted on 29 Jan 2013, 11:25 5 0
almost like the words of MC Hammer... "You cain't Trust This"...
I can't trust them?!?
13. D_Tech-tive posted on 29 Jan 2013, 11:32 6 0
So this is Apple after Steve Jobs...bet he's rolling in his grave.
Hey Apple try real variety, besides different colors or memory size!
30. lyndon420 posted on 29 Jan 2013, 19:06 2 0
Steve most likely is stewing...they weren't supposed to make a different sized ipad or iphone. Steve liked it better when his subjects were limited.
15. MartyK posted on 29 Jan 2013, 11:48 11 2
Except Google give us free stuffs...Apple is a gold digger...lol
16. BadAssAbe posted on 29 Jan 2013, 11:49 5 2
what do anyone expect?
iPhone5s that look and feel great but will get easily damaged and bent like a cheap paintjob on plastic(cheap pastic) but still charge everyone over 600 for a 16gb 4in phone that is still not HD
iPhone4s made to break
Even worse, trying to sue everyone instead of making better products
19. Ninetysix posted on 29 Jan 2013, 12:31 0 0
"iPhone4s made to break"
Guess what the back of the Nexus 4 is made out of.
23. BadAssAbe posted on 29 Jan 2013, 12:59 7 0
True but the
New Nexus 4 16GB cost $350 at launch
While
iPhone 4 or 4s 16 GB at launch cost $650
25. remixfa posted on 29 Jan 2013, 13:56 2 1
You mean... the bloom is finally off the rose? Ya dont say!
26. PhoneAddiction posted on 29 Jan 2013, 14:54 2 0
Laws of nature/gravity.. What goes up, must come down!
27. networkdood posted on 29 Jan 2013, 15:27 1 0
Well, Duh, I could have told you this years ago...never tryst a corporation, especially one like Apple....Hey, Wendy, have you given more money to APPLE yet?
32. jroc74 posted on 29 Jan 2013, 19:43 0 0
I am curious.....where does Google and MS rank? Nevernind,,,,went to AI and saw the pdf. Amazon is a good choice to be on the top ten. Shocked about Ebay....they must be cracking down of fake accounts, ppl getting scammed.
34. freebee269 posted on 29 Jan 2013, 21:31 0 0
apple AND google arent in the top 20. but microsoft is.
36. gallitoking posted on 30 Jan 2013, 00:28 0 3
call the press!!! Apple is not on the top 20.. who cares really.. well only the haters care, because we the users don't.... thank you Apple for creating the ipad.. and the rest of the galaxy did transformed and took note...
38. jroc74 posted on 30 Jan 2013, 07:26 2 0
I take it that only negative news about Android is news worthy...or only positive news about Apple, right?
