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		shoota on Sept 13, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Westfield’s iPhone app privacy smorgasbord This is just sad. I'm sure someone was using the extra information for debugging purposes at one point and never thought to remove it from the json interface.

angusgr on Sept 14, 2011 [–]

I expect a Westfield developer thought they were being very clever. "Oh look, ParkAssist already has a full API! I'll just put it on a public API and I don't have to do any backend development at all."

frankPants on Sept 15, 2011 | [–]

bingo! I'll be my life that's exactly what's happened.

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