In the “core telephony framework”, apple does not provide any method to let the developers to access to the phone’s number.

Hope this will help

its against the law to solicit a cell phone in the united states also you never have to register a cell number on the do not call list. its automatic.

I’m totally with you. If you didn’t know computers could do this, well…..you probably should go back to pen and paper. Face it, that’s the nature of computers. You install somethings, you’re giving it access. It’s a risk, but it’s one that all of us take evertime we boot up a PC that came preloaded with ton of crap-ware.

It’s just another research tool for development and advertising. Welcome to the 21st century.

How is this even a headline? Installing an app has always meant that the app has access to your device, that is your contacts, SMS, mails, all the f***ing stuff that is on your phone!

Oh well….

I understand the logging of the phone number part, and yes, u r correct. I have no way of knowing if the number had been logged or not.

My question though was about how common is it that people receive phone calls about advertising for paid apps? I haven’t received a single phone call personally, but do people experience this a lot? that was my intended question.

As an additional note to your link, I would suggest downloading PrivaCy from Saurik’s repository in Cydia. One can use it to disable the usage tracking prevalent in iPhone apps.

So wait, people should stop complaining about a process because it failed completely at its stated goal of keeping ‘bad things’ off the platform? I might almost give Apple the benefit of the doubt for each app rejected when an icon looks off if it actually protected the underlying platform. But now to the litany of foolish and petty rejections we can add concrete proof that the process fails to catch legitimate issues — and that is supposed to make us like this process more? Umm, no.

How would you know if your number was being logged? The image above is from a proof of concept application, not a real one, so you would never see that display. But that does not mean that it isn’t being logged.

I’m always a little suspicious when an app crashes the first time you run it and never crashes again. Did the developer put the phone number in memory and cause a crash so that it shows up in their crash logs?

The other thing I’m suspicious of is apps that constantly nag me to use GPS when the App has no reason to do so. Why does Shazam need to know where I am?

I haven’t experienced this a single time, not once.

How common is this?

This is the reason why the app approval process is so important!!!

So developers stop whining about the app approval process!!!

Ever hear of a keylogger…..imagine one on your iPhone!!! Enough said!!

Apparently its easy for app developers to get and log your phone number, which leads one to ask just what other info they can get.