Cellphone apps secretly tracking children’s info: FTC
By RICHARD LARDNER Associated Press December 10, 2012 1:02PM
Updated: January 12, 2013 6:13AM
WASHINGTON — Software companies that make cellphone apps are being investigated to determine whether they have violated the privacy rights of children by quietly collecting personal information from phones and sharing it with advertisers and data brokers, the Federal Trade Commission said Monday. Such apps can capture a child’s physical location, phone numbers of their friends and more.
The FTC described the marketplace for mobile applications — dominated by online stores operated by Apple and Google — as a digital danger zone with inadequate oversight.
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