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May 22, 2012 11:23 pm GMT

Clueful Scans The Apps On Your iPhone, Tells You Which Ones Are Doing Naughty Things With Your Data

clueful-iosRemember address book-gate? Locationgate? I-don't-know-what-my-apps-are-doing-on-my-phone-gate? (Oh, that last one might not be a real thing.) Regardless, we're living in age where companies are pushing us to rethink the boundaries between what we consider private, personal information and what should be public. The resulting backlash is an overreaction(-gate) when we discover that some of the data we presumed to be ours alone was actually being stored, accessed and shared by others...in many cases, "others" being mobile app developers.Well, leave it to a security firm tocapitalizeon the privacy scare trend. And by capitalize, I mean launch a $4 app that tells you what the apps on your phone are doing. IntroducingBitdefender's Clueful.

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