Find Out Here What Popular iPhone/Android Apps Know/Transmit About You

blogs.wsj.com — Marketers are tracking smartphone users through "apps" - games and other software on their phones. Some apps collect information including location, unique serial-number-like identifiers for the phone, and personal details such as age and sex. Feb 9, 2012 View in Crawl 4

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Mark_Lincoln Feb 9, 2012

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You are the property of the corporations. Get used to it.

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icwyd Feb 9, 2012

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Does it really need to be that way?

arievoel Apr 2, 2012

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xyrx Feb 9, 2012

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Most of the tested apps for Android are not suprising. The one suprise was Pandora, accessing my location. I'm guessing it wants to verify which country I'm in, to comply with the music industry's requirements. Thank god for Permission's Denied.