From: The Washington Times
Phones and TVs, too, are able to track personal information
PC World reported: “The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has sent warning letters to 12 smartphone app developers for allegedly compromising users’ privacy by packaging audio monitoring software into their products. The software… allows apps to use the smartphone’s microphone to listen to nearby television audio in an effort to deliver more targeted advertisements. … This functionality is designed to run silently in the background, even while the user is not actively using the application.
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These 12 developers already have apps using the spy software in the Google Play store.
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