In the dark days, before the introduction of native tools on Android and iPhone smartphones, we were left to fend for ourselves in app stores if we found ourselves in need of a little light. While the ...

Nick Lee’s Flash Light iPhone application called Handy Light, looked like any other simple torch app on the iTunes store. But lurking behind the scenes in its code was a camouflaged tethering feature.

The following is a guest post from Simon Bates, Senior Advisor, Policy & Initiatives at MEF. Have you ever wondered why something as simple as a flash-light app requests your location when you boot it ...