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Jay-Z's Magna Carta Holy Grail app is set to be investigated for invading users' personal information and gathering data on those who installed the app on their mobile phones.
In a complaint from a US privacy advocacy group, mobile phone manufacturer Samsung has been accused of of 'depriving users of meaningful choice regarding the collection of their data'. The mobile phone company denies these charges.
To use the app, phone owners needed to share details of location, phone calls, networks and what other apps they used on their phones and also permit the Magna Carta app to access their Facebook and Twitter accounts.
Now, the US Federal Trade Comission has been asked to investigate the app and whether it broke privacy rules by the Electronic Privacy Information Centre, (EPIC).
"Samsung failed to disclose material information about the privacy practices of the app ... and failed to implement reasonable data minimisation procedures," they say in their complaint.
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Fellow rapper Killer Mike also took issue with the app's data collection issues, stating: "I read this and, 'Naw, I'm cool [without]' ... I'm not comfortable with that."
Samsung denied the information gathered from the app would be used for marketing purposes, telling the Los Angeles Times in an interview: "Any information obtained through the application download process was purely for customer verification purposes, app functionality purposes, and for marketing communications, but only if the customer requests to receive those marketing communications,"
"Samsung is in no way inappropriately using or selling any information obtained from users through the download process."
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