Loopt App Spams Your Contacts Via SMS

While the majority of complaints about apps so far have been regarding minor technical problems like occasional crashing, one application hasn't been so harmless. Loopt, one of the most publicized applications in the app store, goes through your list of contacts and automatically spams all of them with an SMS invite to everyone on your contacts list, without so much as notifying you that it would be doing so, or asking permission, as soon as you start the app.

Needless to say, quite a few people are getting pretty upset about this. After all, it can create a lot of problems if you're phone sends an SMS invite to someone you're no longer communicating with, your boss, etc.

As a precautionary measure, we suggest that for the time being you do not download and install Loopt. If you have already installed it, delete it without opening it (hold down on any app icon until they begin to wiggle; locate the Loopt app, and tap on the "x" on the corner of it's icon).

CNET has mentioned how Loopt could prove to be a conflict of privacy, in that it gives all of your contacts in the Loopt social network the ability to track your iPhone, and therefore you, at all times.