As part of an investigation on how applications for smartphones exploit personal information, internet radio Pandora said, Monday, April 4, a U.S. grand jury had requested information. Pandora, headquartered in California, revealed these facts in the updated dossier filed with the regulatory authority of the U.S.
equity markets, the SEC intended to document its request for an IPO. Pandora said a federal grand jury had requested the documents as he is apparently investigating the sharing of data with popular programs for Apple iPhones and other smartphones running software from Google, Android. Pandora is not the specific target of the investigation, and believes that "similar requirements have been provided on general grounds for publishers many other applications in smartphones, according to documents filed with the SEC.
SOME DATA TOP SHARED "Most of those who download applications have not the slightest idea of the amount of information that these programs can access," said Nicole Ozer of the ACLU, an association for the protection of private data, cited by Bloomberg. At the end of 2010, the Wall Street Journal had conducted a survey on information provided by programs on handheld devices.
Of 101 applications reviewed by the popular American newspaper, half the iPhone, Android half over, 56 transmit the unique identifier of the telephone, 47 gives the location of the user engaged and 5 age and sex of the user. 
equity markets, the SEC intended to document its request for an IPO. Pandora said a federal grand jury had requested the documents as he is apparently investigating the sharing of data with popular programs for Apple iPhones and other smartphones running software from Google, Android. Pandora is not the specific target of the investigation, and believes that "similar requirements have been provided on general grounds for publishers many other applications in smartphones, according to documents filed with the SEC.
SOME DATA TOP SHARED "Most of those who download applications have not the slightest idea of the amount of information that these programs can access," said Nicole Ozer of the ACLU, an association for the protection of private data, cited by Bloomberg. At the end of 2010, the Wall Street Journal had conducted a survey on information provided by programs on handheld devices.
Of 101 applications reviewed by the popular American newspaper, half the iPhone, Android half over, 56 transmit the unique identifier of the telephone, 47 gives the location of the user engaged and 5 age and sex of the user.
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