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Thursday, August 13. 2009

Palm Collecting Pre Location (and other) Data: Story Summary

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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

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in LBS at 07:19 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) | Bookmark and Share

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