NEWS: Palm criticised over Pre privacy

The discovery was made by software developer and Pre owner Joey Hess,
who found that his phone was reporting his location over a secure
connection back to Palm. It also sent back information about
application crashes - even those not seen by a Pre owner.

Also in the daily update sent to Palm was a list of the third party
applications installed on the phone.

In its privacy policy, Palm does explain that it will gather
geographical data to help with location-based services. However,
commentators were puzzled as to why it needed to gather so much data
and why owners were not told about what it had gathered.

Mr Hess found a way to disable the reporting by editing the phone's
software.

MORE: <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8198921.stm>

On 8/13/2009 9:51 AM, John Navas wrote:
> Mr Hess found a way to disable the reporting by editing the phone's
> software.
>
> MORE:<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8198921.stm>

Why is this cross-posted to a t-mobile discussion site?

Travis James <travis.james@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 8/13/2009 9:51 AM, John Navas wrote:
>> Mr Hess found a way to disable the reporting by editing the
>> phone's software.
>>
>> MORE:<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8198921.stm>
>
> Why is this cross-posted to a t-mobile discussion site?

Because some people just can't help it, spamming newsgroups is
apparently an ingrained character flaw and Navas is probably one of
the worst offenders in cell phone groups.

I don't know if T'bird 3.x can kill cross posted articles*, I do it
with Xnews. The alternative is to killfile Navas but he offers some
good advice when he's not spamming multiple newsgroups with articles
of little or no interest....


*Supposedly T'bird 3 final version will have much better filtering,
if blocking cross posted articles isn't included then it's time to
change newsreaders.

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