Would you provide a cold caller full access and control to your Social Media pages?
I decided to get blogging once more in order to more effectively state a concern I have about variouos social media and gaming Apps requiring access to personal data and passwords before the App can be used.(A Licence to Hack)
I love my IPad2 and my IPhone , I regularly download new applications (apps) free and paid for and usually enjoy the apps.I have however, for some time now, realised how often I cannot connect to Twitter,Facebook,Tumbl.r via a good percentage of my apps (presupposing that as they are on my equipment the app is now mine) without being asked to accept terms that allow the producer(developer) of the app direct access to my social media data,including my passwords, and the ability to not just read but also add content.Additionally more developers ask for my location data.
I am interested in how many users understand they are accepting these terms if they are using the app, as most will not allow you to continue to use the app (or in the case of Facebook games play the game) without you agreeing to giving them a licence to access your data.
What does this mean? It means that a great number of individuals are allowing third parties access to private information and the capability of adding or changing that information.Is this not information hacking?
Feel free to provide me with evidence to the contrary or even suggestions as to how to review all my apps as I have probably approved a licence to Hack unknowingly.
(Guess I will change all my passwords again)
(The latest update,I wanted to tweet an interesting article from a Scientific site(I’ll not be more explicit) today and they asked for access to my Twitter app including password…Why?)
