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Gizmodo: Another iPhone Developer Gets Busted Stealing Phone Numbers [IPhone Apps]
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RT @boingboing iPhone game dev accused of stealing players' phone numbers - Boing Boing http://bit.ly/3gkB3B there goes another addiciton 26 days ago |
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Law Suit against Storm8, Vampires Live on iphone. Stealing information http://bit.ly/45J4ZY 26 days ago |
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News: iPhone developer accused of stealing phone numbers
iLounge | All Things iPod, iPhone, iTunes and beyond —
... ) has been filed against iPhone game developer Storm8 accusing the company of secretly transmitting and collecting players’ phone numbers. Storm8 makes a variety of games available for download from the App Store, including iMobsters, Vampires Live, and Zombies Live, which the company says have been downloaded more than 20 million times, making them “the number one role-playing games for the iPhone and iPod touch.” While the suit acknowledges that Storm8 admitted to transferring players’ phone numbers in August, calling the problem a “bug,” it also states that the company ...
Makers of Zombies Live Accused of Stealing Players’ Phone Numbers
EverythingiCafe —
... games are said to use their software to illegally and automatically gather the numbers of anyone downloads one of their games. BoingBoing is hosting the full text of the lawsuit for any of you legal minded folks. However, given that all of their games are identical shovelware supported by microtransactions, with just slightly different skins, we’re leaning to this being a big old dirty scam, regardless of how many times Storm8 calls it a scam.
[via BoingBoing]
Another iPhone Developer Gets Busted Stealing Phone Numbers [IPhone Apps]
Gizmodo —
... got busted gathering numbers and then calling people to harass them to buy more apps, which is certainly a more brazen move. Storm8 claims that this was a bug, but they're getting sued anyways. It doesn't pay to be shady, devs! [Boing Boing via ...
iPhone developers still stealing phone numbers
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence —
... If you have any of the iPhone games above, iPhone developer Storm 8 might have collected your iPhone number according to a lawsuit investigated by Boing Boing. ...
iPhone game developer sued for farming phone numbers
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis —
... don’t fit into the company’s narrow view of acceptable content, but it seems they still need to work on the basics – like rejecting potential spyware.
Should Apple be held accountable for letting an iPhone app embedded with “malicious software code” onto the AppStore? Should Apple pull the app on grounds that it’s collecting iPhone users’ phone numbers? We’d like to hear what you think in the comments below.
[Via: boingboing]
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