"Your Apps Are Watching You"

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MoonOwl

In Memoriam - RIP
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Here's a bit for those who may care:

"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.

The findings reveal the intrusive effort by online-tracking companies to gather personal data about people in order to flesh out detailed dossiers on them.


http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100...20083703574602.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories


MO
 
You know it strikes me that people don't look closely enough at what an app says it will do. Many, and I do mean MANY, of the games an apps I have seen request even access to the call state on your phone. People will download these things then act surprised that sites know where they are!

It's funny i spent years trying to be connected all the time, and now that I am I do everything in my power to disconnect... in vein.
 
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