Government investigating makers of cellphone apps

Monday, December 10, 2012 - 13:00 in Mathematics & Economics

The Obama administration says it's investigating software companies that make cellphone apps to determine whether they are violating the privacy rights of children by quietly collecting personal information from their phones, then sharing it with advertisers and data brokers. Such spying apps downloaded to mobile devices can capture a child's physical location, phone numbers of their friends and more.

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