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A Federal Grand jury may be looking in the privacy of Smartphone applications such as Pandora Internet radio for iPhone and Android devices. Pandora, recently revealed in filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that he was asked to provide documents to the investigating body. The company has said is not the subject of the investigation and said he believes other publishers of Smartphone app received such subpoenas.
It is not clear what is the grand jury investigation, but the Wall Street Journal says that the criminal investigation is a look at what kind of information the Smartphone apps, whether they properly inform consumers about their data collection practices and why companies need information about the device in the first place.
Smartphone apps and concerns about privacy are continuing theme in the reports on the news. In February Apple is impacted by search of class-action status. The suit accuses Apple of violating the privacy of users as you share user information, collected by iOS devices with advertisers.
As recently as Sunday podcast this week in Tech discussed privacy concerns for color, recently launched a Smartphone app and how it may use your Smartphone microphone for monitoring ambient noise. The app does this as part of its efforts to find out where you are in relation to other users of color, according to TechCrunch. But this may be something that many people who downloaded color were known, and the color for confidentiality, the conditions of service and the FAQS do not appear to specifically address this problem or.
Privacy issues around the Home are becoming increasingly important as more people use these devices to store your contacts, history of the location, electronic correspondence and calling habits. And while it is important to manage in the companies, which may be PA too much information about the user, the greater threat to privacy in the digital age, may be the Government.
Electronic Frontier Foundation works to become more difficult for police officers to search for your Smartphone, if you are arrested. The Foundation recently filed a brief with the Supreme Court of Oregon in the event that the police arrested a man and then seek your cellphone without arrest, according to the Foundation. Police argue they do not need a decree, argument, the Foundation rejected.
"If the courts give police freedom to rummage through the home of anyone who they arrest, then the constitutional protection of process of detention is meaningless," Marcia Hofmann, lawyer of the managerial staff of the Foundation, said in a statement. Other States ' courts are also considered the possibility of the police to search the home without a warrant, but decisions for and against warrantless searches are divided, according to the Foundation.
In September, the American Civil Liberties Union filed suit against the Department of homeland security policy allows the Agency to "search, copy and retain marriages electronic devices at the border without reasonable suspicion." a few months later, an independent journalist Brendan Jourdan complain the settlement of your PCphone and camera storage cards seek and copied by agents of the border of the United States after returning from a distribution in Haiti.
Police are also provided substantial may find out your location, on the basis of data collected from your cellphone. In March 2010, Kevin Bankston, a lawyer with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said of the Simptom?t appear on the media that Sprint has established a tool that allows the police to ping home and find places for the device, on the basis of GPS. The tool was used more than eight million times during the period of one year, according to Bankston.
So it is important to ask what companies do with your cellphone, isn't it more important to ask the Government and law enforcement bodies are doing?
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