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Data protection issues with the Conservatives’ iPhone app for canvassing?

Apr 10th, 2010

iPhone app developer Dave Addey has been investigating the Conservatives’ iPhone app used for canvassing: its general election app asks users to pass on their friends’ details, using data extracted from the users’ iPhone address books, in addition to noting their voting intention.
Calling the hypothetical app user ‘Peter’, and calling his hypothetical unwitting friend, ‘Bob’, [...]

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