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[GrootBaas]

On iPhone you have no clue what the apps can or can not access.

Not true exactly. I always have to allow an app to access my location first before it can use my gps. You can change the location services settings any time after that in the phone's settings.

 

[greg0205]

Also what you forgot to mention is that android applications comes with a security advisory:
When you install an application on android it tells you before installing that the app has access to say geo-tagging, network and sms data.
You can then decide if you want that app to access that data or if it has no right to access it and then not install it.
On iPhone you have no clue what the apps can or can not access.

Actually... You do get a message when you start up the app for the first time... ""App Name" Would Like To Use Your Current Location". You can then choose whether you'd like it to or not. Also... You can check which apps are running Location Services (or turn them off) by selecting Settings/Location Services on your iPhone. Just saying...

Edit/ Just like what MadMan!! said...

 

[Elimentals]

Not true exactly. I always have to allow an app to access my location first before it can use my gps. You can change the location services settings any time after that in the phone's settings.

Sorry I stand corrected, at least you know what apps knows where you been for the last year.
Just a question since I dont use geo-tag or other functions but networking in my code.
If an app use your sms data, does it prompt you as well when you enter it?

 

[Elimentals]

If an app use your sms data, does it prompt you as well when you enter it?

Never mind just checked, it doesn't.

 

[hawker]

It's still a concern that it's unencrypted and readable but I honestly don't care if someone knows I'm somewhere within a 1000m radius, that's like going on a blind date and telling the person you will be the one wearing shoes.

Dead give away if you are in Brakpan though.