gatorguy said: If you've installed an app on your iPhone intended to organize your inbox by subject or sender or whatever, and/or keep you apprised of schedules or vacation plans or airline reservations or purchases or work stuff contained in emails sent to your Apple-supplied email address then wouldn't that 3rd party developer have to be able to "read" your emails in order to provide the service you've asked for? Could it not include reading MY emails sent to you even tho I didn't tell Apple it was OK to do so? That's what the complaint here has been reading thru the thread, that 3rd party apps could be "reading" your emails and perhaps a human could be doing so. Do you know for certain? One of the apps called out for it was Edison. That's in the App Store. There's several apps with similar features there a well.
Yeah, AFAICT Apple allows it too based on the lack of response when I specifically called on several of the most prodigious and knowledgeable posters here, already engaging with the thread, to dispute it. None have.
Rayz at least made an initial reply, altho rather than answering going off on a separate tangent and StrangeDays completely avoided any comment at all about whether 3rd party devs might be able to "read" (with users permission) emails rec'd and with Apple's OK to do so (but not with mine if it's one of my emails being read).
To be clear if it does occur I'm not claiming it to be evil, or illegal, or sneaky, or "typical-Apple", or worthy of Congressional-investigation or anything else unlike some of those same posters I asked for comment, but if it goes on with Apple as well as Google/Microsoft/Verizon et al, and those posters were being honest in their concerns about it (and granted some may not have been), shouldn't casual readers be aware it can be happening in the Garden too? It's not just a Google thing even if portrayed that way, tho I think you should be questioning why it was.
I'm actually more concerned on how Google handles my emails, than what I allow 3rd parties to do, as I haven't allowed any 3rd parties. But, I suppose the concern is more how such access is often given through simple dialogs and complex ToS, etc. But, you're right that I don't see how that would differ from Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc. If you have an app access, it is then on the reputation of that app and what they do with your data.
Is this a situation like the Facebook data where once you've given an app access, they might be giving that access away to other 3rd parties? I suppose we wouldn't know if they were (unless they got caught). The solution is just to not give 3rd parties access to any of that kind of stuff (unless you really, really understand the implications and are OK with them).
Maybe we need to go back to implementing/managing our own email servers, heh. I saw a few alternatives mentioned like Prontomail or tutanota in one post. Maybe a better discussion would be to suggest some good alternatives that are just (paid) email services.
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Is this a situation like the Facebook data where once you've given an app access, they might be giving that access away to other 3rd parties? I suppose we wouldn't know if they were (unless they got caught). The solution is just to not give 3rd parties access to any of that kind of stuff (unless you really, really understand the implications and are OK with them).
Maybe we need to go back to implementing/managing our own email servers, heh. I saw a few alternatives mentioned like Prontomail or tutanota in one post. Maybe a better discussion would be to suggest some good alternatives that are just (paid) email services.