Tens of millions of Android users have installed the Brightest Flashlight Free app, not realising that the app engaged in dirty tricks to share information about users’ location and devices with ...

One of Android's most popular and highly rated apps, Brightest Flashlight Free, has been sharing user location and ID data without their consent, according to the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maker of Android flashlight app with 50M downloads avoids fine after selling location data A popular flashlight Android app with ...

Have you downloaded the Brightest Flashlight Free app for Android? If so you may have inadvertently handed over your device and location data to advertisers. In a settlement with the US Federal Trade ...

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 locations to ...

The developers behind a free torch app for Android smartphones have confessed to stealing users’ location data to send to advertisers. The app, Brightest Flashlight Free, has been downloaded tens of ...