The Californian Apple has reacted with agility to the controversy that these days has arisen around the native application of the Path social network compatible with the iOS system. As you know, it has been discovered that the aforementioned program was recording the user's contact information without the latter being aware of the situation, which has raised an understandable cloud of criticism regarding the privacy policies around the applications, on the one hand, and the permissiveness of the operating platform, on the other.
From the company responsible for Path they have already apologized and have assured that the information will be eliminated from their servers, also urging a certain security that, in the future, the user will be aware at all times about the moments in which the application request user information to be shared. However, in this regard, it seems that Apple also has a lot to say. And in fact, he has.
Through The Verge we have learned that the Cupertino company has ensured that in the future the iOS operating system will include a tool that will not allow data or contact information to leak without the express consent of the user. Apparently, the integration of this new system will activate a series of pop-up windows, or pop-ups , that will demand the attention of the user so that he approves or denies the exchange of information in a consensual way.
At the moment, however, no deadlines have been given as to when this feature would be available in Apple's future operating system. Thus, it is unknown if these news would arrive in the form of a specific system update or if this section will be reserved for the next step that is to come from the platform for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch.
It should be remembered that according to the latest rumors, version iOS 5.1 could be released on March 9, practically in parallel with the premiere of the new iPad 3. That being the case, perhaps that was not the time when the apple company integrated the new function of requesting consent from the user to share data, which would come several weeks later.
