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Palm collects GPS location data from Pre users

article published on 13 August, 2009

Debian-developer Joey Hess posted a blog entry with some worrying details of how Palm Pre communicates with the company. From reading log files Hess found on his Pre, it would appear that the device alerts Palm of where you are (using GPS), what applications you are using and for how long, and when they crash. All of this is done with no notification of such data being sent, and no opt-out ... [ read the full article ]

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google does this aswell when you use any android phone.....
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