Mobile advertising has become something of a hot topic in recent years, but not so much because people detest ads, rather it’s more to do with the information that these ads are taking from users and ...

WASHINGTON — The maker of a popular Android mobile app that turns your phone into a flashlight has agreed to settle the Federal Trade Commission’s charges that the software secretly supplied cellphone ...

Goldenshores Technologies, LLC, the company behind the Brightest Flashlight Free app, will have to be more direct with consumers in the future about how information is gathered and for what purposes.

A popular flashlight Android app with an installed base of between 50 million and 100 million users has also been collecting personal data including location and device ID and sharing it with ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The maker of a popular Android mobile app that turns your phone into a flashlight has agreed to settle the Federal Trade Commission’s charges that the software secretly supplied ...

The developer of the Brightest Flashlight app deceived consumers by transmitting their geolocation data and unique device identifiers to ad networks, the Federal Trade Commission said on Thursday. The ...

A torch app for Android devices called Brightest Flashlight has fallen afoul of the Federal Trade Commission (FCC) over its data-sharing practices. The application, which has been downloaded between ...

Even though a flashlight capability is now native to the latest smartphones, if you search long enough you can still find hundreds of flashlight apps on the Google Play Store. Apps like Ultra Color ...