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Palm Pre Reports Your Location and Usage To Palm

Posted by Soulskill on from the caught-palm-red-handed dept.

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 to Palm, including the names of installed apps, application usage (and crashes), as well as GPS coordinates. This, of course, is without user consent or control. The only way he found to disable the uploads was to modify system files."

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  1. Re:Oh no! Automated Dr. Watson by nobodylocalhost · · Score: 0, Troll

    Actually, GPS coordinates are relevant. This is because they can be used to determine which towers are being used by the device in order to debug issues that involve the cellular towers.

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