Grand Jury Investigating Smartphone Apps

Published April 6, 2011 4:47pm ET



The Wall Street Journal reports that online music provider Pandora has been subpoenaed in a grand jury investigation of information sharing linked to its smartphone application. This is apparently part of a much larger investigation into the abuse of app capabilities, in which companies are using their apps to access information about users in order to send the information to other companies:

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