The Relevant News: Privacy about Contact List Apps
This news is mainly introducing the privacy problem of contact list used in social network. Many apps designed for contact list is to help users connect with their friends conveniently. In recent years many people are willing to accept broadcasting their location and information with others so that they can meet more new friends. Though contact list are always stored into users’ own mobile, there are many potentially security problems. From this news, authors take many examples to prove this kind of situation. An app of mobile the Path used contact list to realize the functions of social network such as sharing and transferring information. Due to the poor security function, the privacy information of users has been exposed. Thus more users begin realizing whether their privacy has been revealed through these social networks. Other content of this new is talking about another example of this problem. Therefore, in term of our apps, privacy is an inevitable point to consider carefully. After all, our app is based on the contact list to develop other additional functions.
