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Hundreds of iOS apps secretly collect users’ data

<p>A security firm claims to have discovered 256 apps that illicitly gather user email addresses, lists of installed apps, serial numbers and other identifying information. Apple may be obsessed with user privacy, but these apps — which violate App Store policy and have been downloaded by an estimated 1 million people — somehow got by […]</p><p>(via <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.cultofmac.com">Cult of Mac - Tech and culture through an Apple lens[/url])</p><br clear='all'/>

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