Angry Birds - Mining Contacts information?!

[MistaBungle]

In fact, I believe there's been a couple of updates since I first realized it was eating battery in the background. Perhaps the problem has been fixed in the updates?

Mark

Really? You haven't tried it for a couple of updates and you are complaining?

REALLY?

 

[Mark Booth]

Really? You haven't tried it for a couple of updates and you are complaining?

REALLY?

Read what I wrote. I have become accustomed to automatically going to the multi-tasking tray and "force quitting" Angry Birds immediately after playing it. It's become second nature to me and, until this thread today, it never occurred to me to do anything different.

Once we know more about how Angry Birds is using our data, then I'll consider reinstalling the app. In the meantime, it sits in iTunes, not on my iPhone.

Mark

 

[WelshBluebird]

While I do agree the WSJ article is a bit wishy washy with details, I think this is a real problem. Even ignoring the privacy side, a lot of apps are simply breaking the law (at least UK law).

 

[Mark Booth]

I received this response from Rovio regarding my inquiry about Angry Birds:

Mark,

thank you for contacting us.

We take our users' privacy very seriously.

Angry Birds does not access your contact information. If you have registered with Crystal social gaming platform, you can select to find friends using Crystal by searching from your contacts. Crystal matches the email addresses in your contacts with email addresses of registered Crystal users. No contact information is collected or stored by Crystal.

If you have not registered to Crystal social gaming platform, this option to use contacts to find friends not available, and no contact information is used in any way at all. For more information, see the Crystal Privacy Policy. To access the policy in Angry Birds, select the Crystal icon, and select Account Settings > Crystal > Privacy Policy.

The above stands for current location information as well. Unless you explicitly select to use the information in Crystal, neither contact or current location information is used for any purpose.

I hope this clarifies any concerns.

Best Regards,

Ville Heijari
Bird Whisperer
Rovio Mobile Ltd.

That's good enough for me. I don't use the Crystal social gaming system.

Mark

 

[asleep]

Those farkin birds are spies...

I bet those pigs are, too.

Can't trust animals, anymore.

 

[Rodimus Prime]

I received this response from Rovio regarding my inquiry about Angry Birds:

Mark,

thank you for contacting us.

We take our users' privacy very seriously.

Angry Birds does not access your contact information. If you have registered with Crystal social gaming platform, you can select to find friends using Crystal by searching from your contacts. Crystal matches the email addresses in your contacts with email addresses of registered Crystal users. No contact information is collected or stored by Crystal.

If you have not registered to Crystal social gaming platform, this option to use contacts to find friends not available, and no contact information is used in any way at all. For more information, see the Crystal Privacy Policy. To access the policy in Angry Birds, select the Crystal icon, and select Account Settings > Crystal > Privacy Policy.

The above stands for current location information as well. Unless you explicitly select to use the information in Crystal, neither contact or current location information is used for any purpose.

I hope this clarifies any concerns.

Best Regards,

Ville Heijari
Bird Whisperer
Rovio Mobile Ltd.

That's good enough for me. I don't use the Crystal social gaming system.

Mark

and what that proves is how little WSJ cares about the truth and just wanted to make a mess of things.

 

[rdowns]

and what that proves is how little WSJ cares about the truth and just wanted to make a mess of things.

Did you read the WSJ article? It's a pretty exhaustive piece. And you're discounting the whole article because of some email from a Bird Whisperer?

 

[Daveoc64]

Things can glitch you realize.

Just cause they aren't supposed to do that in software, doesn't mean they don't glitch and some how do do that.

As I said, I'm pretty sure Assassins' Creed does that to my iphone and I'm pretty sure it's a glitch (not that they designed it do that but some bug hits sometimes and it happens).

It wouldn't be something that the App could do itself. iOS controls the killing of processes itself and it applies the rule very evenly and consistently.

Angry Birds would also need to specifically be written to do something in the background - I can't see what they would need to do!

 

[tigress666]

It wouldn't be something that the App could do itself. iOS controls the killing of processes itself and it applies the rule very evenly and consistently.

Angry Birds would also need to specifically be written to do something in the background - I can't see what they would need to do!

Point is something does tend to glitch sometimes when I'm running Assassin's Creed and my battery gets drained.

Just because it is designed to do something doesn't mean it always does that, specially when it comes to software.