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Palm Collecting Pre Location (and other) Data: Story Summary
Short version:
1) Programmer finds that location and other information about user habits are being sent to Palm daily
2) Media writes about it and demands explanation from Palm
3) Palm responds - saying in essence - we said we'd do that in the license toward a better user experience and there are ways to turn sharing off
4) Some users agree that such data sharing is in the license; some are appalled and call this spying
- c|net
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