Jason Kottke:
Maybe I’m being old-fashioned here, but this seems unequivocally wrong. Any app, from Angry Birds to Fart App 3000, can just grab the information in your address book without asking? Hell. No.
I bet Apple will change this behavior.
Dirty little secret
You mean like every contact database on every computer OS on the planet? Seriously, this is not some iOS “scandal”.