“Pandora Media said Monday that it was served with a subpoena for a grand jury probe looking into how information is shared in smartphone apps on Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android,” Larry Dignan reports for ZDNet.
Dignan reports, “The probe, detailed in Pandora’s latest IPO filing, reads: ‘In early 2011, we were served with a subpoena to produce documents in connection with a federal grand jury, which we believe was convened to investigate the information sharing processes of certain popular applications that run on the Apple and Android mobile platforms…'”
“Pandora wasn’t the target of the probe, but other subpoenas have also been issued,” Dignan reports.
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lynn W.” for the heads up.]
Is a grand jury probe anything like an alien probe?
Yes..but I hear they’re much less pleasurable..
The aliens will buy you dinner first, but they don’t call again.
You would know.
Thanks, Wendell! You are the first person to publicly acknowledge the veracity of my alien abduction experience! Either that, or you are about 6 years old.
Seven tops.
Closed to a proctologist probe from last 1980s.
It will be interesting to see how Apple’s and Google’s practices compare.