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Welcome to the iPhoneography User Forum > Pinch Media Spyware in iPhone Photo Apps

For me apps with included pinch media spyware are a no go.
It collects private data from your phone WITHOUT your notice and approval. You cannot switch it on of off!
These data are:
- your telephone number
- your iPhone's hardware identifier
- your phone model and OS version
- app name and version
- is your device jailbroken
- length of time app was running
- your location if not disaggreed
- your gender and age if using Facebook Connect

Pinch Media itself claims that their collection of data is legally covered by the enduser license aggreement we all accepted with the use of itunes.
Regarding to Pinch media the only way to stop the data transfer is to use the app in "airplane mode". Haha.

After months i scanned all my .ipa files with IPA Scanner 0.2 again.
Positive result = containing pinch media:
- Gorillacam v1.1 (v1.0 is clean!)
- Slideshow Builder (v2.00)

It deleted both now.

What do you think of that?

February 10, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterTomba

Marty has an answer from Joby - developer of Gorillacam - on his blog. Plus my comment
[url]http://lifeinlofi.com/2010/02/05/gorillacam-gets-updated-cool-new-features/#comments[/url]

It looks that i must be the only one having a paranoia ;-) or you deleted them all long ago and i was late to notice.

February 11, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterTomba

Creepy... I can't imagine that Pinch Media is doing analytics and crash reporting for developers out of the kindness of their hearts. Harvesting facebook connect info seems over the top.

April 1, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterChromocam

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