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Exactly. When an address book is sent to every company that makes an app it's business!

When the same is sent to China, it's outrage?

Ditto with auto-updates.

I'd be glad if I could control much more of my data exposure. But business.

I am also a little curious about what the manufacturer (or by extension the PRC government) could do with data from a phone in the US? I actually prefer my backdoors to open to Beijing... they aren't likely to share, and they aren't in a position to do anything to me (I would obviously feel differently if I was a Chinese citizen).

Well before smart phones, computers all over the world have been calling home (to the USA).