In the L.A. Times this morning...

"Palm Pre phone secretly used GPS to report user's location to company"
by -- David Colker

"The Palm Pre phone knows where you are, and it's secretly giving out that information. On a daily basis, according to a software developer.

Joey Hess, who lives on the East Coast and works on a Linux-based operating system, noticed something odd about his Palm Pre phone. He was checking over computer logs he created to track the phone's system and he discovered that the Pre was uploading its GPS location to Palm Inc. once a day."

"Palm didn't deny it was getting the information. In a brief, vague press statement, the company said its privacy policy "includes very detailed language about potential scenarios in which we might use a customer's information, all toward a goal of offering a great user experience.""

"In any case, Palm also said in the statement, "We appreciate the trust that users give us with their information, and have no intention to violate that trust."

Hess was not so trusting. He found a way to program the phone to stop uploading the info."




reference: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/tech...o-company.html