Apple Sued Over Apps Sharing Personal Data

Apple is the target of a class action lawsuit over the way its apps share personal information with outside parties, according to a Bloomberg report.

The lawsuit comes a week after a Wall Street Journal article about user information being shared by some popular mobile apps “widely and regularly.”

The lawsuit names applications such as Pandora, Paper Toss, the Weather Channel and Dictionary.com, according to Bloomberg. The Wall Street Journal article claims that both the Android and iPhone versions of the Pandora app “sent age, gender, location and phone identifiers to various ad networks.”

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