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alastairpat on Feb 8, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Hipster (like Path) uploads your address book emai...

The problem is that making a change like requiring authorisation (à la Core Location) for Address Book would cause backwards compatibility hell.

mike-cardwell on Feb 8, 2012 [–]

iOS could prompt the user for permission when the contact list is accessed, with temporarily/permanently allow/deny options. If the user says yes, the app gets access, if the user says no, the app gets "spoofed" access, to an empty contact list.

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