Google could face a third privacy row in a two years, after a leading campaigner called for the US government to investigate the fact that the names, geographic region and email addresses of people who buy apps from its Play store are passed on to the app developers without users’ explicit permission.The company is also coming under pressure from developers who do not want it to send them that data, because they are concerned about its privacy implications.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/feb/25/google-privacy-fears-app-developers
Google raises privacy fears as personal details are released to app developers
Google could face a third privacy row in a two years, after a leading campaigner called for the US government to investigate the fact that the names, geographic region and email addresses of people who buy apps from its Play store are passed on to the app developers without users’ explicit permission.