Posted on 12/18/2010 5:23:18 PM PST by LibWhacker
A WSJ Investigation finds that iPhone and Android apps are breaching the privacy of smartphone users
Few devices know more personal details about people than the smartphones in their pockets: phone numbers, current location, often the owner's real name—even a unique ID number that can never be changed or turned off.
These phones don't keep secrets. They are sharing this personal data widely and regularly, a Wall Street Journal investigation has found.
An examination of 101 popular smartphone "apps"—games and other software applications for iPhone and Android phones—showed that 56 transmitted the phone's unique device ID to other companies without users' awareness or consent. Forty-seven apps transmitted the phone's location in some way. Five sent age, gender and other personal details to outsiders.
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Tor is your friend, friends.
If you didn’t compile it yourself, you don’t know what it does, do you?
This sort of thing does not help to convince me that I should get a cell phone.
In incidentally, the WSJ story contains a queer reference that I think is gratuitous. The Journal does that sometimes. I'm looking for a better version to send to everyone I know... from my new iPhone.
sent from my iPhone.
In incidentally, the WSJ story contains a queer reference that I think is gratuitous. The Journal does that sometimes. I'm looking for a better version to send to everyone I know... from my new iPhone.
sent from my iPhone.
Ya ain't missing nothing.
If ya need to know anything worth knowing, just ask a FReeper.
Did you know that all gmail chats are archived? Click chat at gmail and find out more.
the regular cell phone is enough for me.
Letsee, my car has a black box that can reconstruct.
All the streetlights have tv monitors
At work we have dozens of cameras
Facebook and othersites log me
My phone can tell someone where I am
and who I called.
My bank logs all my monies and payers and payees
Anything that I am missing?
.....Anything that I am missing?.....
your innermost thoughts are on display on Free Repulic
That is true.
And I love you....sweetie.
Thus why I don’t have an I-Phone or a Droid. I only use wireless for voice comms. Also no need for Facebook/MySpace?whathaveyou.
“Google’s main mobile-ad network is AdMob, which it bought this year for $750 million. AdMob lets advertisers target phone users by location, type of device and “demographic data,” including gender or age group.
A Google spokesman says AdMob targets ads based on what it knows about the types of people who use an app, phone location, and profile information a user has submitted to the app. “No profile of the user, their device, where they’ve been or what apps they’ve downloaded, is created or stored,” he says.”
AdMob, what a name. If you believe “No profile of the user, their device, where they’ve been...”, I got a bridge for sale.
To render the older phones untraceable, one must remove the battery.
Or just smash the thing.
The newer phones not only ping cell towers, they are traceable via gps, down to the meter, in real time. I would not be surprised to learn that many of the newer units have internal backup battery systems to maintain clock and date functions (and tracability) should the battery be removed.
I really try to limit myself.
Our landline doesn’t work right. It only rings once. Thought about looking into getting it fixed.
But I don’t care.
They can watch me all they want.
I don’t care.
The only site I’m on is this one.
You can watch me all you want.
I don’t care.
HEY! My daughter just rolled in, ummmm, with 3 friends.
I guess I otta put some pants on...
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