Apple’s iOS has been under fire for allowing third-party apps to access users’ location data and contacts without permission – and now it looks like photos and videos have been compromised too. The New York Times used a test app to prove that the security software had a giant loophole in its privacy settings.
The loophole allows any developer to covertly copy an iPhone user’s entire photo library, including any location data attached to those photos. And obviously you don’t want just anybody knowing about stuff like that – just Apple, Google, Facebook and Twitter. And Foursquare.
Apple hasn’t yet commented on the issue, safe in the knowledge that everybody will have forgotten about this by the time the iPad 3 gets announced, but The Verge reports that the photo loophole is a bug, and Apple is already working on a fix for a future version of iOS.
Be careful what you download, kids.
[Source: NYT]
