Lawsuit accuses Facebook, Apple, Twitter, Yelp and 14 other companies of distributing privacy-invading mobile applications. Suit charges 18 companies with surreptitiously gathering data from the address books of tens of millions of smartphone users. Lawsuit was filed by a group of 13 individuals in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas earlier this week. The lawsuit seeks a permanent injunction against such data collection and the destruction of all personal data collected by mobile application vendors so far.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2131215/18-firms-sued-for-using-privacy-invading-mobile-apps.html