The app is accused of being a “location data company powered by weather” and profiting from users’ data without being upfront about it.
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Are your jilted apps stalking you?
“Uninstall?” HA! Uninstall trackers enable app developers to game iOS and Android and continue sending push notifications to fleeing users.
YouTube illegally collects data from kids, group claims
A coalition has filed a complaint with the FTC, charging that Google’s YouTube is breaking COPPA: the law to protect children’s privacy.
FCC plans weekly name and shame list of robocallers
With over 215,000 complaints last year, robocalling and telemarketing has become a massive issue for US federal regulators who now appear more determined than ever to quash the problem.
Google to give marketers the ability to target us via email address
Customer Match will enable advertisers to get to us via our email addresses, which can be matched to signed-in users of its search engine, Gmail or YouTube.
Privacy and targeting are among new video controls for Facebook Pages
Now, video uploaders can discriminate – or is it target-market? – based not only on language and location, but also on gender and age. 
Google ad profiling: what’s causing the gender discrimination?
Google displayed ads for a career coaching service for “$200k+” jobs 1852 times to the male profiles and only 318 times to female profiles. But is it Google’s fault?
PayPal backpedals on awful robocalling policy
“Sorry for the confusion!” it said, promising to erase the no-opt-out, robocalling/autotexting nightmare seemingly poised to grip the US.
Apple tweaks iOS 9 to stop advertisers getting our app data
Developers and advertisers have been eyeballing the apps we download to target-pitch their own wares. Apple are shuttering the peepshow.
FTC sanctions phone location tracking company for not allowing customer opt-out
Nomi has been ordered to tidy up its business practices as part of a settlement with the FTC over its tracking of retail customers’ smartphones.