What your phone app doesn't say: It's watching - Technology News - Charleston Daily Mail - West Virginia News and Sports -

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Your smart phone applications are watching you - much more closely than you might like.

Lookout Inc., a mobile-phone security firm, scanned nearly 300,000 free applications for Apple Inc.'s iPhone and phones built around Google Inc.'s Android software. It found that many of them secretly pull sensitive data off users' phones and ship them off to third parties without notification.

That's a major concern that has been bubbling up in privacy and security circles.

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