Android lets apps secretly access and transmit your photos

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Android lets apps secretly access and transmit your photos

Writing in the NYT’s BITS section, Brian X. Chen and Nick Bilton describe a disturbing design-flaw in Android: apps can access and copy your private photos, without you ever having to grant t…

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But increasingly these things are networked — we carry around location-sensitive, accelerometer-equipped A/V recording devices at all times (our phones). Adding network capability to these things means that design flaws, vulnerabilities and malicious code can all conspire to expose us to unprecedented privacy invasions