Posted on 12/18/2010 5:23:18 PM PST by LibWhacker
Things that happen when you join the must have club,look before you leap.
“I guess I otta put some pants on..”
You freep in the raw???
Freeping can be pretty exciting...
:-))
They haven’t done that, but they’ve been hogging the TV remote, and finished all the beer. Bastards.
The main problem is, your daughter needs friends who are less judgmental. ;’)
I just said I otta. Didn’t say I DID.
And they don’t really care. It was beer thirty.
They was over watching movies the other day in the chill out room. Decided they needed more beer. So I took one on a run. They really didn’t need to drive. We get there and this kid says “I forgot my money”. I told him he did that on purpose. So he owes me anyways.
My understanding is that Apple’s policy is that any App that uses Location Services (gps location) is required to ask for permission. Many apps do this- some are not surprising like weather apps, mapping apps, etc. But others (like games) also keep up with your location.
You can tell if an app (with iPhone) is using the gps/location service by a little icon at the top of the screen.
As far as other personal info- it depends on the app itself.
Android-— produced by the largest spyware company in the world- Google, who intentionally collect literally every detail and bit of info on your android- powered phone, from usage patterns, who you call, email, text, etc, as well as your address book becoming the property of google...
I fail to see how this is all that different from our computers at home- laptop or desktop. Tracking cookies, rampant spyware (especially for those who voluntarily install Chrome and/ or the various “toolbars” for their browsers - ALL of which report all sorts of data to various recipients.
No difference between a desktop or a laptop and a machine that is your telephone, letter-writer, tv and music player, wallet, calendar, diary, bankbook, personal recordkeeper AND fits in your pocket and goes with you everywhere, the inner workings of which are understood by a handful of people whose interests are unlikely to coincide with yours, whose motives you have no reason to trust, whose competence you have no information on, who work in an industry that gets paid to catalogue everything it can about who you are and what you do with that machine?
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