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I wonder if some of what these developers are engaged in could legally be interpreted as fraud? Civil fraud is a thing. Some of these developers have: - maki

I wonder if some of what these developers are engaged in could legally be interpreted as fraud? Civil fraud is a thing. Some of these developers have: - making misleading and knowingly false statements - profiting from these actions - people were fooled by these statements The tricky part might be demonstrating ‘harm’, but at least some jurisdictions have enshrined a legal right to privacy, violation of which could be grounds for legal action.

phlyingpenguin 8y ago
In the case of Gas Buddy (and larger, Cuebiq), I've seen two family members have their entire data plan used up on their behalf by the location services being overused. I'm guessing a bug in a recent version of their library. It might be possible to argue at least a phone bill out of them as harm.