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<\/a><\/p>\nThen trouble bloomed: First, a lot of the reported 20 million users who downloaded the app had trouble<\/a> actually accessing the album, something Jay Z blamed on unexpectedly high demand that essentially crashed the system. But then a much larger shoe dropped, when the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) filed a complaint<\/a> against Samsung with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), charging that the app abused user privacy by accessing a whole lot of information it had no business using. That information included users\u2019 locations, access to their contacts and connection to their social media accounts, which it essentially forces by requiring users to login into the app through Facebook or Twitter, and by requiring users to post alerts when they \u2018unlock\u2019 song lyrics.<\/p>\n Samsung, of course, shot back against the EPIC complaint with a statement that declared, in part, that its \u201cpermissions are in line with other apps\u2019 standard permissions. Samsung is in no way inappropriately using or selling any information obtained from users through the download process.\u201d That\u2019s company-speak for \u2018we\u2019re just doing what everybody else does.\u2019<\/p>\n And that point is quite right: Lots of apps collect similar information from their users, even though it is very often far more private data<\/a> than those users probably realize. That\u2019s because most users don\u2019t closely read<\/a> the terms and conditions of the agreements they make when they download apps. That includes the various permissions that they give to these apps to collect data from their devices that is then used for marketing, spam-transmission or malicious purposes, depending on the legitimacy of the app. Harmful apps are far more prevalent on Android devices, since that platform is much more open than iOS \u2014 and that\u2019s the sandbox in which, perhaps not coincidentally, the \u201cHoly Grail\u2026 Magna Carta\u201d app plays.<\/p>\n