Applications for collecting user information without their knowledge can not be anything new, but not every day we see things rise to the level of the Federal Grand Jury investigation. That happened today, however, federal prosecutors in New Jersey to launch a probe to determine whether smartphone applications have been collecting personal information such as the location of a person without being conveniently in front of him. So far, only one independent developer Pandora and have filed and said they have received subpoenas, but Pandora says it believes the probe is one of the industry, and that "there is a specific target of the investigation." As the Wall Street Journal, the research is also still in the early stages and thus can not result in actual charges, but seems to extend beyond their own application developers. A "person familiar with the matter, " says the Wall Street Journal that Apple and Google have been asked to provide information on applications and those responsible for the application in question, although not publicly comment on the matter at the moment.
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