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Use Contact Privacy to Safeguard Your Data. In this fast evolving digital age, there is an increased concern regarding user privacy, which incidentally is getting increasingly difficult to protect, as more and more platforms are shifting towards being more social oriented and are making steady inroads into our daily lives. And with user awareness regarding their personal information being lax at the very least, user privacy would definitely take a more center stage as social networking evolves.

The latest news regarding users contact privacy came out yesterday when the social network which goes by the name of Path, was secretly uploading all the contacts from the iPhone contact directory of a user. These details were secretly being uploaded to the servers of the network. This was basically done whenever a user accessed Path’s App from their iPhone

Now this is not something new as many before have been under fire for the same reasons as this, as most third party apps are involved in such practices. But usually most give the users at least the option to opt out in case they do not want to share their private information.

We here at JailbreakHow have just the tip for you to always know whenever a third party app wants to access and upload your private information. This jailbreak tweak goes by the name of Contact privacy. This contact privacy jailbreak tweak is another one of the creations of Ryan Petrich, the guy behind the popularMusicBanners jailbreak tweak that we covered.

What contact privacy does is that it informs you whenever a third party app wants to access your information such as your contacts, and throws up a pop-up that lets you to control whether to allow or kill the application that is trying to access your personal information. Simple as that.

This can be invaluable if you really value your privacy and want to have total control over what information is accessed by the applications you use. But let it be known that some apps require explicit access to your information before they can function properly on your iPhone.

You can grab contact privacy jailbreak tweak for free from the rpetri.ch/repo Repository. This jailbreak tweak is free and does not have any settings for you to configure. So contact privacy is pretty simple to use

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