"These apps, says Jen King, director of consumer privacy at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, “are basically just a front for collecting data.” Maybe an app claims to track your fertility; what it really wants, King explains, is to “sell that data to somebody else who would be interested in it,” like an insurance company doing actuarial analysis on birth rates."
The Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School is a leader in the study of the law and policy around the Internet and other emerging technologies.