Privacy advocates are concerned that Donald Trump’s newly released “America First” mobile app goes too far in its data collection procedures, ABC News reports. The app gains access to a user’s contact list during the initial app registration process. Advocates contend the move is problematic because mobile address books “in many cases … can contain notes about health information, snippets of emails, codes for security systems or garage doors, shared passwords, or even Social Security numbers,” the report states. Trump is "basically saying he has the right to pull down the contact list of the donors and supporters [using the app], which is something that is really very controversial,” said the Electronic Privacy Information Center Executive Director Marc Rotenberg.
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