04-24-2011, 05:13 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2010
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Device: Pandigital Novel, Kindle G1 (broken), iPod Touch
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Research by a security analyst this week found that an Android phone collected location data every few seconds and sent it to Google several times an hour. Apple disclosed in a letter to Congress last year that its phones "intermittently" collect location data, and the company receives it twice a day.
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On Friday, a Google spokesman said "all location sharing on Android is opt-in by the user."
However, this definition of "opt-in" doesn't mean the system is off by default for people who use the typical Android set-up.
Rather, when a user activates an Android phone, a screen appears saying Google's service provides location to applications and that it will collect anonymous data even when no apps are running.
The box to accept this is checked by default, but the user can uncheck it. For users who bypass this process entirely, location services aren't turned on.
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Read more: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...#ixzz1KTeI2yJW
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