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Comment Re: (Score 1) 383

the iphone is Steve God's er..I mn Jobs' gift to man. If it explodes it probably means the you are not worth it. Of course if it were some other device/OS (read Microsoft) having this problem we would have seen tonnes of witty quips and cheap shots from stickman Justin Long by now.

Comment much ado about nothing IMHO .. (Score 1) 61

for all the concerns about privacy, our lives are getting more public every day. man is a social animal after all. It is surprising how people don't mind exposing their private preferences, photos, friends etc. on Facebook or MySpace and yet are concerned when this very data is used with profit motives. In the end of the day, perfect privacy and security means getting off the grid. As mobile malware becomes more prevalent mobile technology can be misused in diabolical ways as was recently demonstrated in the Blackhat conference
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Privacy, Mobile Phones, and Ubiquitous Data Collection 61

ChelleChelle writes "Participatory sensing technologies are greatly expanding the possible uses of mobile phones in ways that could improve our lives and our communities (for example, by helping us to understand our exposure to air pollution or our daily carbon footprint). However, with these potential gains comes great risk, particularly to our privacy. With their built-in microphones, cameras and location awareness, mobile phones could, at the extreme, become the most widespread embedded surveillance tools in history. Whether phones engaged in sensing data are tools for self and community research, coercion or surveillance depends on who collects the data, how it is handled, and what privacy protections users are given. This article gives a number of opinions about what programmers might do to make this sort of data collection work without slipping into surveillance and control."

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