I read the whole article this morning ... and in Palm's privacy statement, it says among other things:
"Location Based Services. When you use location based services, we will collect, transmit, maintain, process, and use your location and usage data (including both real time geographic information and information that can be used to approximate location) in order to provide location based and related services, and to enhance your device experience." (from the original techtree.com article) "So, if you haven't noticed it yet, being a Palm Pre user and agreeing to use it, you have "accepted" these terms already. Palm, on its part, has come up with a statement on the issue that says that the company takes the privacy of every user very seriously. We've heard this before Palm, but we believe you this time!" Not exactly "without user consent or control". If you agree to their terms, you've agreed to this. Theresa On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 14:46 -0500, Scott Granneman wrote: > Now this is a nice one. > > http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/KRqHf4yt7aQ/Palm-Pre- > Reports-Your-Location-and-Usage-To-Palm > > "It turns out the Pre periodically uploads detailed information about > the user to Palm, including the names of installed apps, application > usage (and crashes), as well as GPS coordinates. This, of course, is > without user consent or control." > > Scott > -- > R. Scott Granneman > [email protected] ~ www.granneman.com > Full list of publications @ http://www.granneman.com/publications > My new book: Google Apps Deciphered @ http://www.granneman.com/books > > "Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd." > ---Voltaire > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
