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"Companies are using free smartphone apps as 'fronts' to allow them to spy on users' text messages, intercept calls and even track their location, it was claimed yesterday. By accepting little-read terms and conditions when downloading apps, consumers give developers the right to harvest vast swathes of private information. Facebook insists that people using its Android smartphone app agree to give them permission to read their text messages, although the internet giant said it had not yet taken advantage of this right."

"Pictures you've e-mailed or uploaded from your smartphone could be leaking location information threatening your safety or that of your children"

Young people worldwide use mobile devices in a variety of ways-but they almost universally use smartphones to access the Internet, says "Mobile Youth Around the World," a recent study from research giant, Nielsen.