Is your Pandora music app spying on you?
That’s the claim, anyway, in a new $5 million federal law suit with class action potential filed Wednesday.
Jarret Ammer, an Orange County, New York, resident and the lead plaintiff in the case, is suing Apple, Pandora and Backflip Studios, the designer of the time killing game, Paper Toss. Why? He says that the app developers passed along his location information using his "Unique Device ID"–a numerical codes specific to his phone–to advertisers without his permission.
If true, his lawyers say, it is a violation of federal computer fraud laws and New York state anti-hacking laws.
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