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andrewbnz: I find the Article on NZ Herald written 3 March 2012 a little ironic given their own intrusive permissions in the latest version
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10789477
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ajobbins:Klipspringer:ajobbins: I wrote to the Herald on Saturday, but am yet to get a reply. I'll give them a day or two longer then I'll send my email off to the Privacy Commissioner.
Don't think u have a case. If you don't like what the app is doing then don't use it. Its easy enough to see what the app is doing it does after all "ask you for permission". What more do you expect?
Now I am not a legal expert by a long stretch, but my understanding of the privacy act is that NZ orgnaisations are only allowed to collect informaton that is genuinely relevent to their normal business activitesGoogle Drive. If they want to collect my phone book for marketing reasons, they have obligations under the privacy act to justify why they need it.
http://privacy.org.nz/the-privacy-act-and-codes/privacy-principles/purpose-for-collection-of-personal-information-principle-one/
JimmyH:
Don't tend to use either the Herald or Stuff apps (or websites) much any more - ever since they abandoned actual journalism and factual reporting in favour of a "news lite" mix of stale reprints, puff pieces and advertorials.
timmmay: I just wish when you went back to the story list after reading a story it didn't refresh and go back to the top of the story list. So annoying I rarely bother with NZHerald.
Klipspringer: But you giving them permission to collect all the rest.
Just like you grant facebook and all the other apps permission.
In their case they can easily argue that they need access to these settings. the flaw I see here is the wording "genuinely relevant to their normal business activites". I have not read the act so I'm no expert either. But there are a number of reasons they can say they require this information.
This one is a weird case though because it is afterall just a news app. What exactly do they want access to the camera/contacts for. I always make sure I look at these things carefully before I just install any old app. There are plenty of dodgy ones out there. This is just one out of an extremely long list. The joys of Android!
Twitter: ajobbins
My views (except when I am looking out their windows) are not those of my employer.
nathan: write a letter to the editor, LOL
Have you been tweeting them?
Their main social media guy left recently to go work at Telecom NZ
Twitter: ajobbins
ajobbins:nathan: write a letter to the editor, LOL
Have you been tweeting them?
Their main social media guy left recently to go work at Telecom NZ
I tweeted them a few days ago, but no reply. Looking at their twitter stream, it looks like it's a one way street and they don't engage, they just push. Still no reply to my email to them either.
Regards,
Old3eyes
@ajobbins Hey Adam, I've seen a bit of feedback about this. I'll pass it on to our dev team and get back to you. Cheers,
— Paul Harper (@paulharper_nzh) February 6, 2014
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freitasm:I am one who don't believe you will get answers anyway. Not if they are like the Stuff folks, who say "will come back to you..." and never do.
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