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[ PRIVACY Forum ] A hyperbolic headline,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (PRIVACY Forum mailing list)
Tue Aug 21 00:52:11 2012
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A hyperbolic headline, but still a disturbing report about Romney/Obama smartphone apps
http://j.mp/NCmggi (Register)
"Security researchers have uncovered privacy shortcomings in the mobile
applications offered by both the Barack Obama and Mitt Romney
presidential campaigns. The campaign teams of the incumbent US
President and his Republican challenger have each released apps for
both iOS and Android, in good time for the election on November 6.
Experts at GFI Software looked at the Android versions of both apps,
discovering both to be surprisingly invasive."
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This does not appear to be a report of security violations pe se, but rather
of requesting (both programmatically and via Terms of Service) a range of
permissions from users that seems surprisingly broad.
--Lauren--
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