July 20, 2013

Jay-Z’s ‘Magna Carta’ mobile app is too snoopy, privacy advocates complain

Why does Jay-Z want to know who we’re talking to?

Because that’s the type of information demanded by an app he released earlier this month to promote and distribute his latest album over Samsung devices.In fact, the galaxy of permissions required by this busybody little app “verges on parody,” the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) said in a complaint it filed this week with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

"If Jay-Z wants to know about my phone calls and e-mail accounts, why doesn't he join the National Security Agency?"

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