Pandora Under Investigation for Sharing Your Personal Information

Apple and Android users - put down your smartphones and read this. Could your favorite apps betray you?

Apple and Android users – put down your smartphones and read this.  Could your favorite apps betray you?

Online music service Pandora and other makers of some of the most popular smartphone apps on the market are reportedly under investigation by a federal grand jury over concerns they are sharing personal information about their users to third parties and online advertisers.

Federal prosecutors in New Jersey are said to be examining whether mobile marketers violated a computer fraud law by collecting or transmitting user information without properly disclosing what they were doing, according to a report in the Wall

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