Samsung respond to criticism of Jay Z album app

Following legal complaints of privacy-encroachment, electronic device manufacturers Samsung have responded to criticism following their Jay Z smartphone app.

The app, available to Samsung Galaxy customers, allowed 1 million users to download the rapper’s recent record for free four days prior to its official release. It also, however, seemed to require a suspicious amount of data from users.

After being referred to the FTC regarding the issue, Samsung have now said that all criticism they’ve received has been “baseless”, with their app “in line with other apps’ standard permissions”.

Read the full statement below:

“We are aware of the complaint filed with the FTC and believe it is baseless. Samsung takes customer privacy and the protection of personal information very seriously.

Any information obtained through the application download process was purely for customer verification purposes, app functionality purposes and for marketing communications, but only if the customer requests to receive those marketing communications.

Our permissions are in line with other apps’ standard permissions. Samsung is in no way inappropriately using or selling any information obtained from users through the download process.”

Jay Z’s new album, Magna Carta Holy Grail is out now.

[via The 405]