FROSTWIRE LEGALITY FOR ANDROID
Nothing in the FrostWire for Android installation and setup process, or the application's user interface, adequately informed consumers that the application operated in this manner. She also needed to remember, when next running the application, to unshare the category or individually unshare any new photos she might have taken in the meantime in order to keep the new photos private. The FTC complaint provides an example:Ī consumer with 200 photos on her mobile device who installed the application with the intent of sharing only 10 of those photos first had to designate all 200 photos in the “Picture” category as shared, and then affirmatively unshare each of the 190 photos that she wished to keep private. Once shared, the mobile app made it difficult to un-share categories of files. With FrostWire for Android smartphones, the default installation automatically shares pictures, video, documents, and music files on the device-including existing, user-generated photos from the built-in camera or user documents copied from a desktop computer running Frostwire Desktop. With LimeWire now shuttered by court order, FrostWire has proven popular, but the FTC argues that both its mobile and desktop versions deceive users and share far too much information.
FROSTWIRE LEGALITY PATCH
It will also push a patch to change settings for current users.įrostWire is file-sharing software created from a fork of the open-source LimeWire code. The Federal Trade Commission has decided that certain default software settings can violate the law against “unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce.” The agency recently went after the peer-to-peer filesharing program FrostWire for sharing too many user files by default, something that could easily lead to identity theft, copyright infringement, and the loss of “intimate photographs.” That's right: the federal government now goes to court to protect the privacy of your nude smartphone pics.įrostWire settled the charges today and agreed to numerous changes to its default settings.
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