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Apps for children raise privacy concerns

Published: December 10, 2012 3:37 PM
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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The government is investigating whether software companies that make cellphone apps have violated the privacy rights of children by quietly collecting personal information from phones and sharing it with advertisers and data brokers, the Federal Trade Commission said Monday. Such apps can capture a child's physical location, phone numbers of their friends and more.

The FTC described the marketplace...