Saturday, December 18, 2010
Wall Street Journal says apps may violate privacy, fingers MySpace and Pandora
You might have heard how careless some third-party iPhone apps can be with your personal data, but it may not yet have hit home -- offenders can include must-have programs like MySpace and Pandora, too. The Wall Street Journal tested 101 popular apps for iPhone and Android and discovered that over half transmitted unique device identifiers (UDID) to a flock of advertisers without so much as a prompt, and that some (including Pandora) even transmitted a user's age, gender and location to better
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