The New York Times reported recently that not only the iOS apps can have access to all pictures stored on the iDevice, but Android apps can also snoop on the private photo albums of the user as well.

According to the report, if iPhone users can accept that application developers have access to all photos content on one’s device, the manufacturer of Android platform, Google, takes things even further.

The applications developed for Google’s Android mobile OS do not require permission to have access to photos on devices as long as they receive green light to access the Internet. Moreover, all photos from Android devices can be copied and stored by app developers on a remote server without requiring the permission of the user.

It appears that the one who discovered this breach in the system is Lookout, the security company dealing with the antivirus solutions for Android. “We can confirm that there is no special permission required for an app to read pictures” reported Kevin Mahaffey, the chief technology officer of Lookout. In order to show the security flaw in the Android device, one of apps developers for Google’s platform created a simple app requiring from its user only to access the Internet, then copied the most recent photos and shared it on a public photo-sharing site.

Fortunately, Google has acknowledged this enormous gap of violation of users’ privacy and reportedly will take into consideration “changing its approach”. Apparently, Mac OS and Android OS app developers have reached an agreement to increase security of data on future applications.