The new Pandora Radio update now asks for two permissions: your internet, and your contacts. Only one of those two should be needed. Before the update, the online music streaming application only required your internet access. What’s the deal? Pandora has released a statement about the permission changes. See the statement after the break.

“We request contact access so sharing songs can be quick and simple.  When someone is listening to a song they like and want to share, that access enables us to immediately display their contact list so listeners can pick the friend(s) to whom they want to send that song.   That’s the sole purpose of the access request.  We don’t store, or save anyone’s contact book information, or access it for any other reason at any other time: we just access it for people in that specific instance.

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