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18 Firms Sued for Using Privacy-invading Mobile Apps

 Business, Court
Mar 152012
 

Jaikumar Vijayan reports:

Facebook, Apple, Twitter, Yelp and 14 other companies have been hit with a lawsuit accusing them of distributing privacy-invading mobile applications.

The lawsuit was filed by a group of 13 individuals in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas earlier this week. The suit charges 18 companies with surreptitiously gathering data from the address books of tens of millions of smartphone users.

Read more on PCWorld.

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