The End of Privacy: Address Books with Friends

So all the apps that take and upload and store your address books (which is a lot of them!) are making changes to their apps! By… sort of vaguely notifying you that they are doing so. So… not by not doing that. For instance, Twitter: “In place of ‘Scan your contacts,’ we will use ‘Upload your contacts’ and ‘Import your contacts.’” Ha! Good one. Because “upload” really means “we’re going to store every phone number and address and name of everyone in your phone for 18 months.” WELL? Once people started digitally “signing” that endless user agreement in iTunes without clicking through all 36 or 42 pages or whatever, it was all over anyway.