Andrew Storms, director of security operations for , explains the crux of the issue . "Instead of doing the difficult work of putting together a privacy policy that has some teeth or going after app developers already violating policies, Apple has basically decided to annoy their users by requiring them to click through a dialog box for just about every app on their phone."

Storms adds, "These dialog boxes are going to be like one of those whack-a-mole games--exactly the kind of thing users despise and ignore completely."

Obviously, if users simply approve all permission requests the result will be much less privacy and security rather than more. As Storms points out, this is purely a legal CYA (cover your "assets") move by Apple. If Apple wanted to , it would enforce stricter guidelines for app developers rather than making users jump through extra hoops.