Palm Issues Statement Over Palm Pre Privacy Concerns
Marketing Duh!
These companies are in the business to make money and will do alot of things to get that competitors edge.
The deal with the Pre is that it seems to collect your exact location and send that info to Palm on a daily basis. If it sends your location to Google in order to pull up a map, that's one thing, but to just collect location info constantly for no reason is not something people should tolerate,...
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Disrespect said:
All cell phone companies do this.
Well, yes, but it's the nature of the technology that your cell phone company knows roughly where you are. There's no way to avoid that. Your phone needs to connect to a nearby tower to function, and the network needs to know who's connected to what tower at all times. Naturally they know where their own towers are located.
But for Palm and/or Google to know where you are all times... that's just unnecessary, and a very slippery slope. On an iPhone, you have to give explicit permission before an app is allowed to use your location. That's how it should be. To have your location shared constantly in the background without your permission is not okay with m...
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I know, but when you restrict app's ability to a minimum then you have Cell geeks as previously been proven even on phonescoop.com they will bash the device for not being able to multi-task even though apple is protecting your privacy at the expense of you hatting them. lol its a loose loose.
I honestly don't think they are selling the info but do think they are using that information for its future devices and services to provide the customers what they tend to like based on their own tracks.
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I don't think the problem is Palm collecting this data, The problem is the LACK of disclosure to the user.
Trying to hide behind the Google location data disclosure is shady at best, It says nothing about PALM collecting user data. It also says nothing about the other data being collected by Palm. If Palm is not doing anything wrong, like reselling your info then they should be upfront about the data collection.
Don't forget that Palm was well on the way to going out of business (failure to update palm OS, failure of NOVA OS, and the FOLIO) ...
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http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/08/12/pre-phones- ... »
See my post under Rich's as to why this is not going staright to Google and Palm is the middle man if you will becasue it is a Palm OS not a Google one. As well as what could be done with the info.
Also by other data I guess you are taling about the apps you have installed? Then turn off "Backup" as the apps says it backs up your apps daily OTA. Not sure how you back up an app OTA without sending it to your Palm Profile which is on Palm servers.
Rich Brome said:
Well, yes, but it's the nature of the technology that your cell phone company knows roughly where you are. There's no way to avoid that. Your phone needs to connect to a nearby tower to function, and the network needs to know who's connected to what tower at all times. Naturally they know where their own towers are located.
But for Palm and/or Google to know where you are all times... that's just unnecessary, and a very slippery slope. On an iPhone, you have to give explicit permission before an app is allowed to use your location. That's how it should be. To have your location shared constantly in the background without your permission is not okay with me.
ok so suppose u dont ...
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techjunky said:
ok so suppose u dont get the service. then youll complain about compatability and user ability.
But what is it for? When I use Google Maps, sure, that makes sense, and I'm choosing to disclose my location each time I use it. But the phone just sending my location out every day is for... what?
...and what does this have to do with compatibility with anything? Oh, and my abilities are just fine, thank you. ...or did you mean usability? ...which still has nothing to do with this.
techjunky said:
who cares that google or palm know where u are. what are they gonna do other than help u get to where ur going.
When my location is sent in the process of using Go...
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I understand what you are saying regarding tracking your location but one thing I have yet to see any data sent that identifies the end user themself. I have read the blog of the person that located these commands/files in WebOS but non of the info sends my name, phone number, or ESN. They also confirmed that turning your GPS off will not send your location. The "HOST" this is sent to via https is ps.palmws.com. Nowhere does it send info to a Google host. You agree to send the info to Goolge but it goes to Palm first becasue it would be strage for a Palm OS to send info to a Google host outside a Google app. So even if someone does get ahold of this info how are they going to know who it even is? It is nothing more than a Latit...
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