Fire Alarm Companies

Twitter is committed to be more transparent with its users, as Apple says that applications that collect data from users violate the company guidelines for developers

Twitter says it will make more explicit privacy guidelines after admitting copying whole people smartphones address book and store information on their servers, according to reports.

Both the micro-blogging service and Apple, whose iPhone app Twitter offers have been criticized after the disclosure.

Reports indicate that two members of Congress have written to Apple asking why the company can operate on your iPhone, because it violates the guidelines for application development.

Twitter spokesperson Carolyn Penner told the BBC and the Los Angeles Times. "We want to be clear and transparent in our communications with users

"In this sense, our next phase of implementation, which are to come, we update the language associated with Find friends to be more explicit."

also said that instead of "scan your contacts", the site uses "load your contacts" and "import contacts", however, for the iPhone and Android, respectively.

He writes: ".. As an aside - Never in my wildest dreams, I imagine to fly and so I hope we can remain calm and continue consideration of the reasonableness "
In a blog entry, executive director Dave Morin Road, said. "We used the data for reasons of simplicity