" Security researchers are always poking at popular apps, especially from
China, as developers there often create apps for jailbroken iPhones, but
have been the victim of a malware-infested version of Xcode.
This general interest was heightened on the Android side, as the app
requests a swath of permissions to access personal data. When researchers
went poking in the iOS version, they quickly found a host of red flags:
multiple analytics packages, which is software used to track usage and
users; requests for data that Apple forbids, some of the code for which was
taken directly from a popular iOS programming guide, which prominently notes
it shouldn't be used in production software; and attempts to extract a
unique phone identity, which is sketchy based on Apple's rules."
Read more:
http://www.macworld.com/article/3160024/security/meitus-photo-effects-app-tr
acks-users-without-disclosing-enough.html
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