Facebook does this all the time. Nobody cares about that either.

App site companies need to be responsible and test apps for data forwarding to outside IP addresses, opening of ports for allowing outside access, stay resident components, and anything else that might be a problem. In some ways we're still in the infancy of mobile apps so someone has to protect users. I'm okay with companies putting in restrictions and testing before posting apps, since we know people are already pushing security limits to see how far they can go. The last thing I would want is the industry to get so bad that we have to buy anti-virus or anti-malware apps just to use our phones.

People in general are stupid, ignorant, dumb, panicky animals. Quick to believe anything you tell them and stare at any shiny thing you put in from of them.

It is very simple simpletons! The more technology you use, and carry with you. The easier it is to track and keep data on you.

DUH!

I often wonder about my GPS. How easy is if for something to track it when it is turned on?

Why are they still being allowed to do this? Doesnt it contravene the Data Protection Act? (Weasel-worded "disclaimers" notwithstanding.)

Why are phones still being shipped that even allow apps to do this? Shouldnt there be some security layer that intervenes when (eg) what is ostensibly a simple puzzle game tries to send your business card and entire usage history to some server in russia?

Why are duhvelopers still so naive that they include random malware in their code without finding out *exactly* what it does? (Or so lazy and corrupt that they just dont care?)

Why are l^Husers still blithely using apps that suck this much? Are they just STUPID?

et cetera, ad nauseam.

And never forget there are apps to listen in when connected or anytime, besides to get your location.

This mentions what I've long suspected: that libraries of code contain malware that innocent programmers include.

in other news .. the Sun is expected to rise in the morning.

Free is 99% of the time not free .. go figure