Entertainment & Sports
Feb. 18, 2012
Users are rethinking phone data
After reports that mobile applications, including Twitter, were accessing information from users' address books, frustrated privacy lawyers are looking to the FTC to take action.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
As Internet-capable smartphones have become ubiquitous, user data stored on the devices is increasingly valuable to marketers - and it's not as private as some might think.
Smartphone users received a rude awakening this week when a blogger discovered an iPhone application called Path was capturing and downloading contact information from its users' address books without their express con...
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