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FTC finds popular flashlight app for Android illegally sharing data with advertisers

06

Dec

2013

A popular flashlight Android app with an installed base of between 50 million and 100 million users has also been collecting personal data including location and device ID and sharing it with advertisers even for users who had opted out, the Federal Trade Commission found. GoldenShores Technologies, LLC, the developer behind the “Brightest Flashlight Free” […]

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Millions of Android users ‘deceived’ by flashlight app that shares location with advertisers

06

Dec

2013

An Android developer has agreed to settle charges with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over a free flashlight app that has been deceiving users. Brightest Flashlight Free, available in the Google Play store, has been downloaded over 50 million times, but a complaint from the FTC reveals that the seemingly innocent app transmits “precise location” […]

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FTC says flashlight app left consumers in the dark

06

Dec

2013

WASHINGTON (AP) — The maker of a popular Android mobile app that turns your phone into a flashlight has agreed to settle the Federal Trade Commission’s charges that the software secretly supplied cellphone locations to marketers, even when consumers rejected its terms of service.

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