Apple has removed hundreds of apps from theiTunes App Store that secretly collected personalinformation from anyone who downloaded them.

苹果公司已经从苹果商店中下架了上百个应用软件，这些应用都涉及秘密收集用户私人信息。

Most of the 256 affected apps were made in China,but they were available worldwide on the app storeand were downloaded 1 million times, according toapp analytics service SourceDNA, which firstdiscovered the problem.

根据一款名叫SourceDNA的分析服务应用软件提供的数据，这次下架的256个应用中大部分出自中国，但是他们在苹果商店中面向了全球，而且已经被下载了100万次。也正是这个软件第一个发现了这个窃取信息的问题。

The apps' creators used a software development kit from a Chinese advertising company calledYoumi, which allowed the developers to put ads in their apps. That's kosher.

这款应用的创始人使用了一款由名叫有米的中国广告公司提供的软件开发系统，这个软件让应用软件开发者可以在自己的应用里加入广告，这是可以的。

But Youmi's software gathered information about the people who downloaded the apps,including their email addresses and iPhone serial numbers -- sending all that data to Youmi'sservers. That skirted Apple's strict privacy guidelines for app developers.

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