Is that Palm Pre in your pocket the latest cool new smartphone, or a really expensive tracking device? It’s both! Close inspection of the device’s webOS reveals that the phone uploads user locations (among other things), sending them back to Palm headquarters daily.
Said information is outlined in the company’ Terms and Conditions, which reads, in part,
Palm and its Affiliates may collect, store, access, disclose, transmit, process, and otherwise use your location data (including real time geographic information) in accordance with Palm’s privacy policy.
But, let’s face it, Palm’s not really alone in this. For better and worse, your phone knows where you are at all times–and so does your wireless carrier. Not that such a fact lets any company off the hook, but it certainly seems a fact of modern life–a scary, scary fact.
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