Palm Pre reports your location, usage, to Palm

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AceJohnny

on Wednesday August 12, 2009 @04:07AM

AceJohnny writes "Joey Hess found that his Palm Pre was ratting on him. It turns out the Pre periodically uploads detailed information about the user, including installed apps, application usage (and crashes), as well as GPS coordinates to Palm. This, of course, without user consent or control. The only way he found to disable this was to modify system files."
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For the PHB version see PreCentral (Score:2)

by emj (15659) writes:

The less tech intensive article can be found in PreCentral article based on this [precentral.net].. Very interesting stuff though, I wonder how much I would have cared abou this.. :-) Probably not that much.

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For the PHB version see PreCentral (Score:2)