Friday, 6 December 2013

Popular Android Flashlight App Straight-Up Lied About Selling Data

Popular Android Flashlight App Straight-Up Lied About Selling Data
Dec 6th 2013, 15:41, by Ashley Feinberg

Popular Android Flashlight App Straight-Up Lied About Selling Data
Were you one of the 100 million Android users that downloaded the Brightest Flashlight Free app? Did you conscientiously click "no" when asked if you'd like to allow the app to track your location data? Well, too bad, suckers. Because not only has the FTC revealed that the popular, light-giving app was secretly selling data to third parties, but its "option" to refuse the data collection in the first place was one big, fat lie.
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