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According to Samsung, the answer to that question is a firm no. The company has formally responded to controversy surrounding the app's overly broad data collection. One million of Samsung's smartphone customers received a free digital copy of Jay-Z's latest album earlier this month, though the promotion required Hov's fans to first install an Android application. In the rush to download Magna Carta Holy Grail , many people likely overlooked requests to collect personal information including phone numbers and a user's location — data that seemed unnecessary for the app to carry out its intended purpose.
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To this, Render tweeted, "Naw I'm cool. It's not unusual for apps to requests access to this information. Preventing a phone from sleeping is desirable when people don't want their music streams to stop playing just because the listener hasn't touched the screen in 10 minutes.
And when apps are updated, they frequently need to modify how much storage they eat up. In the wake of the National Security Agency's Prism surveillance scandal and recent Congressional focus on privacy, it's also not unusual for people like Render to reject Jay-Z's offer.
At the same time time, data collection is becoming a high priority among digital music marketers hoping to learn as much as they can about their fans and potential customers. Balancing that with respect for individual privacy is a tightrope act, one in which the tightrope is constantly shifting beneath the feet. This is because popular perception of what's acceptable can fluctuate based on current events and vary by demographic. In order to install the programme, users reportedly had to agree to give up details of their location, phone call details, networks and other apps on their phones.
They also had to sign in through Facebook or Twitter and give the Magna Carta app permission to post on their behalf.
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