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Pandora App Sending 'Mass Quantities' of Personal Data to Ad Networks
- April 7, 2011 02:57pm EST
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Pandora App Sending 'Mass Quantities' of Personal Data to Ad Networks
Is your Pandora app transmitting more than the latest hits? Internet security company Veracode conducted an investigation recently and found that the Pandora Android app is transmitting things like user location, gender, birthday, and postal code information to third-party ad networks.
"Your personal information is being transmitted to advertising agencies in mass quantities," Veracode wrote in a blog post. "As more and more 'free' applications attempt to monetize their offerings, we will likely see more of your personal information being shuttled out to marketing and advertising data aggregation firms."
Veracode was inspired to test out the app aft
Veracode was inspired to test out the app after Pandora revealed that it was served with a grand jury subpoena related to an investigation about the security of mobile apps. Pandora said in a regulatory filing that it was not a specific target of the investigation, but believes that similar subpoenas were issued "on an industry-wide basis" to other companies that produce smartphone apps.
As a result, Veracode decided to analyze the Android version of the Pandora app, and found libraries from five ad networks bundled into the app: AdMarvel, AdMob, comScore (SecureStudies), Google.Ads, and Medialets.
1 comment:
This is not good news. All the system on the account must kept confidential. And those who have the authority will have the chance to access on this. It is not a good vibes that information will be sent to the third party.
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