Potential privacy concerns with Apple's MobileMe service

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Potential privacy concerns with Apple's MobileMe service

« Posted: October 13, 2009, 10:28:16 AM »

Potential privacy concerns with Apple's MobileMe service

A reader from The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) has discovered what could be potentially a significant privacy breach in Apple's MobileMe resgistration renewal process. According to the reader, Apple is inadvertently displaying MobileMe subscribers' data like contact names, notes, phone numbers, dates of birth, etc, to other users in what TUAW calls "very specific conditions". The potential breach was discovered when the reader, based in the UK, renewed his MobileMe account. In the time between when he renewed the account and MobileMe actually applied the renewal, each time the user logged off and back on to the service, he was shown a list of contacts and their information - the concern being that none of them were his. Read full story...

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