Sunday, May 1, 2011

Telecoms Are Tracking You

But it i$ benign (so they say), so don't worry about it.

“These aren’t smartphones, they are spy phones,’’ said John Simpson, director of the Consumer Watchdog’s privacy project." 

Related:

iPhone, iPad track users’ locations 

iPhone app speeds market checkout

Apple tracking inquiries expand

Apple admits errors in location data policy

TomTom says police used reports to set speed traps

Android system gains market share

Android under malware attack   

Sorry, I left the thing at home again.