This Flashlight Android App Has Been Secretly And Illegally Sharing Your Personal Data With Advertisers

A popular Android flashlight app has been surreptitiously collecting personal data and sharing it with advertisers. The Federal Trade Commission found that Brightest Flashlight, which has been downloaded over fifty million times and which enjoys nearly a million 5-star ratings in the Google Play Store, deceived users both by sharing location and device identification information with third-parties including advertising networks, and by collecting and sharing data before users were even offered a...