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Friendcaster

Friendcaster

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App Description

The following description comes from the Google Play Store description of the app:

FriendCaster lets you easily keep up with friends while keeping tabs on your busy social life. With a beautiful interface, lots of unique features and true push notifications, FriendCaster is fast, fun, and free.

Features include:

★ Full news feed

★ Six beautiful themes
★ Support for multiple accounts
★ Comment on, like, and share posts

★ Post status updates, photos and videos
★ Hi-res photos directly in the news feed
★ Quick and easy setup assistant for notifications
★ Zip It - hide posts from your feed by user or application
★ Saved Posts - save your favorite posts to check out again later 

★ View your friends check-ins, either in a list or on a map

★ Displays your full size cover photo on the app opening screen

★ Swipe through your photo galleries or your friends’ photo galleries with slideshow view

★ Contact sync adds friends’ Facebook profile pictures and URLs to your address book

★ Track upcoming events and your friends’ birthdays in one convenient location

★ Take the conversation anywhere with threaded messages and chat

(FriendCaster Chat is also available separately in Google Play).

Sensitive Permissions Used By This App
Permission What Why
Read your contacts Can read user's contact list (phone book) and phone call history Internal
Disable your screen lock Allows applications to disable the keyguard if it is not secure. It appears this app uses this data for internal use within the app's functionality
Full network access Can access the internet It appears this app uses this data for internal use within the app's functionality
Can access the internet It appears this app uses this data for mobile analytics
Can access the internet It appears this app uses this data for social networking services
Can access the internet It appears this app uses this data for targeted advertising
Can access the internet It appears this app uses this data for utility purposes
Add or remove accounts Can manage user's accounts on the phone Internal
Find accounts on the device Can use user's account information stored on the phone Internal
Precise location (gps and network-based) Can use user's precise location Internal
Can use user's precise location It appears this app uses this data for market/customer analysis
Can use user's precise location It appears this app uses this data for delivering location targeted advertisement
Can use user's precise location Utility
Create accounts and set passwords Can use user's account authentication information (like password) or create new accounts Internal
Read phone status and identity Can read phone's current state information like in-phone call, phone signal, carrier, device ID, and phone number It appears this app uses this data to identify users for market/customer analysis
Can read phone's current state information like in-phone call, phone signal, carrier, device ID, and phone number It appears this app uses this data to identify users for delivering targeted advertisement
Can read phone's current state information like in-phone call, phone signal, carrier, device ID, and phone number Utility
Approximate location (network-based) Can use user's approximate location Not analyzed yet
Modify or delete the contents of your usb storage Can write to your phone's USB storage Not analyzed yet
Modify your contacts Can edit contacts on device Not analyzed yet
Third Party Libraries Used by this App
Library Usage
Facebook
Acra
Amazon
Millennialmedia
Tapjoy
Admob
Flurry
Smaato
Greendroid
Admarvel
Radiumone

Privacy Analysis

Version of the app analyzed:

5.4.5

App was last analyzed by Privacy Grade on:

08/18/2014

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