Retrievable iPhone numbers mean potential privacy

TechnologyResource writes: "When a couple voicemails didnâ(TM)t show up recently, I thought nothing of it until a friend asked me if Iâ(TM)d gotten his messageâ"people just donâ(TM)t call me that often. But a phone it is, as some users are reportedly being reminded when they get phone calls from the publishers of a free app theyâ(TM)ve downloaded from the App Store. The application in question, mogoRoad, is a real-time traffic monitoring application. As invasive and despicable as that sounds, it raises another question: how did the company get ahold of the contact information for those users? Mogo claims the details were provided by Apple, but Apple doesnâ(TM)t disclose that information to App Store vendors. French site Mac 4 Ever did some digging and determined it was possibleâ"even easyâ"for an app to retrieve the phone number of a unit on which it was installed."