Pandora sends user GPS, sex, birthdate, other data to ad servers

Posted by abraham on Thursday April 07, 2011 @01:43PM
from the arstechnica.com dept.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/04/pandora-transmits-gps-gender-birthdate-other-data-to-ad-servers.ars

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Re:Pandora sends user GPS, sex, birthdate, other data to ad ... by rdin on Thursday April 07, 2011 @02:01PM (#2420473)

Using Pandora on my Atrix keeps giving me LivingSocial ads from Seattle, but I haven't lived there in 2 years; I'm not sure how tightly integrated the GPS information is.

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