Prosecutors in New Jersey are studying whether a large number of smartphone applications illegally transmitted information about their users without proper disclosure, a source said. The investigation
is looking at whether app makers have fully disclosed the type of data they are using and how they are using it. Such activity could violate federal computer-fraud law. Pandora says it has gotten a
subpoena pertaining to a grand jury investigation of information sharing by smartphone apps.
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