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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Jay-Z Is Watching, and He Knows Your Friends
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Jay-Z Is Watching, and He Knows Your Friends
http://j.mp/14VMRZt (New York Times)
"Samsung bought a million downloads of the album, for $5 each, to be
given away on July 4 - five days before the album's official release -
through a mobile application, JAY Z Magna Carta, on certain Samsung
models. It's an ugly piece of software. It demands permissions,
including reading the phone's status and identity, which made some
users, notably the rapper Killer Mike, suspicious: Does Jay-Z really
need to log my calls? It also gathers "accounts," the e-mail addresses
and social-media user names connected to the phone. Those permissions
are often part of a typical app package. This one got worse."
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