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Friday, July 30, 2010

Your smart phone is watching you

Think this isn't real? You may want to click on the link and see the rest of this article..
Fact is. They are really great tracking devices and The mics can pick up everything. The only way to stop it is to pull the battery out. At least for now.
clipped from www.smh.com.au
ispyPhone ... Is your smartphone watching you? <I>Graphic: Liam Phillips</i>
Australian security experts, consumer advocates and privacy campaigners have sounded the alarm over the hundreds of thousands of free smartphone applications that spy on their users.
Lookout, a smartphone security firm based in San Francisco, scanned nearly 300,000 free applications for Apple's iPhone and phones built around Google's Android software. It found that many of them secretly pull sensitive data off users' phones and ship them off to third parties without notification.
The data can include full details about users' contacts, their pictures, text messages and internet and search histories. The third parties can include advertisers and companies that analyse data on users.
The information is used by companies to target ads and learn more about their users. The danger, though, is that the data can become vulnerable to hacking and used in identity theft if the third party isn't careful about securing the information.
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