In recent
news, Apple has been noted to banish the privacy application called “Clueful”,
by Bitdefender, from its Apple App store kingdom. The cell phone spy apps and iPhonespyware bothered by the app up until this point can take a breather for now.
The company strikes Bitdefender’s privacy app in spite of the fact that the
application resided in the App Store, what it would otherwise have deemed
happily ever after, for over a month.
The tragedy
goes something like this; Clueful was once a happy privacy app as it was to be
launched in May this year on the Apple App Store as a paid app that would aid
the users in terms of pinpointing the applications that were fishy or not as
careful as they should be users’ personal information. Bitdefender expounded
upon the launch of Clueful that it would give the Apple users a simple method
of judging their various apps, quite similar to the way Android users have the
ability to check application permissions locally. Regardless, the privacy app
seems to have been removed from the App Store for mysterious reasons.
But why? On the
surface it seems as if Apple has taken issue with the privacy app’s claims to
aid its users in knowing what their iOS apps are actually doing, by its removal
from the App Store and efficaciously forestalling its usage by any new users
requiring its services. However, the old users who paid for the app before the
crackdown will have the ability to continue its usage. In addition, Bitdefender
has not been given a determinate reason explaining why the application was
removed, from what it appears. Catalin Cosoi, who is the chief security
researcher at Bitdefender, said in one of his statements about the company that
they are working hard in terms of figuring out the reason for which their
application was removed along with stressing on the development of the app such
that its chances of staying up there are improved.
However,
Cosoi also acknowledges that there is chance that some of the users might have
been abusing the application as many application developers use the information
gathered from Clueful for constructive and legitimate reasons, there can be
others who do not abide the same rule. The remotion of this privacy application
from App Store quite sometime after it was launched and stayed there, raises
greater concerns about the submission process followed by Apple and the
question as to why it was approved in the first place. One of the possible
explanations may lie with the recently made claims by an ex-employee of Apple
who asserts that the app review team for Apple lacks majorly in terms of
personnel.
However, the
app developer Bitdefender has maintained that it still obligated to continue
the development of its privacy app, Clueful, and will submit the application
again to Apple upon its improvement. Regardless, Clueful might no longer have
much value as the new privacy settings for iOS6 are expected to be unveiled
soon. What comes of the further improvement of Clueful and how relevant is it
actually deemed upon the revelation of the new privacy settings by Apple, is a
matter that only the future will unfold.
Author Bio: Stella Rebecca's major effort has revolved around latest gadgets. Recently she's been playing with the many Android spyware features that are diverting the interest of the new generation. Readers can find out more about what's most recent and happening in the spy world..
