Fans who downloaded rapper's new album 'were totally clueless'
Rush Limbaugh gets it. Barack Obama gets it. Even Samsung and the producers who manage Jay-Z get it.
In a little more than a week after its June 24 launch, Jay-Z's album "Magna Carta Holy Grail" had been downloaded free by more than a half-million people who purchased Samsung's popular Galaxy S4 cellphone, Billboard reported.
But there was a catch.
Downloading Jay-Z's new album on the Samsung phone required a special app that also retrieves a ton of personal information from the user and delivers it to Samsung.
Limbaugh explained to his radio audience Tuesday that it was "a data-mining app."
Limbaugh went on to explain the app required users to supply their phone status and their identity to Samsung and Roc Nation, the producer of Jay-Z's new album, along with information about social networking accounts such as Facebook and Twitter.
http://www.wnd.com/2013/07/jay-z-uses-obama-tactic-to-snatch-personal-info/
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