The report says: 19% of iOS apps access the Address book without permission

The tip of iOS application access address Book according to foreign media reports, antivirus software expert Bitdefender recently found that nearly 19% of iOS applications will be in the user's uninformed or disagree, access to the user's address book. In addition, 41% of applications track the location of the user. Most of all, 40% of these applications that can access user privacy information do not encrypt information. However, this situation will be improved by the release of iOS 6 this fall. Bitdefender has studied more than 65,000 iOS apps currently available for download at Apple's App store. They found that 18.6% of apps would access the user's address book without the user's consent, or even notify the user that they were doing it. In addition, 41% of applications track the whereabouts of users without the user's permission. In addition, after the information has been acquired by the application developer, only 57.5% of developers have encrypted the data for a variety of reasons. This means that the remaining 42.5% of the developers do not encrypt the user's data, which makes the hacker have the opportunity to take advantage of. Bitdefender's chief security researcher Catalina-Cossoi (Catalin cosoi) says the statistics are alarming: the fact that iOS apps encrypt user privacy data is rare, and geographical tracking is so common. If you don't know what the application is accessing, it will be very difficult to keep the data safe. We are very concerned about user data encryption, general geographic tracking, improper access to directories, and so on, however, the advent of IOS 6 will change that. Apple will incorporate new privacy features into the new firmware to address the issues mentioned above. When a user first uses an iOS app, iOS 6 asks the user if they agree to use access to their contacts, track location information, or even use a webcam. In this way, the user will know what data the application will access, and operate according to the user's own wishes. However, the problem of data encryption may still be unresolved. Because you can't be sure that after the application gets some data, they encrypt it. Unfortunately, unless Apple forces developers to do so, we will not know which applications encrypt our data and which are not.