phone apps allegedly snagging address book contents

just read this - glad i have a dumb phone.

the list of all 14 companies is in a comment after the story.

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscente...bile_apps.html
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also it was alledged that the software snags photos as well.

Scary

For many of these services, we sign up for "free", except nothing is free. We are not customers, we are the product, and when we sign up the goal of the app provider is to gather as much data as possible for future marketing. Google's new privacy policy (I read it, have you?) basically boils down to a "no-privacy policy".

The cross-platform information mining that they can do (and that they are doing) is frightening, downright frightening. Do you have GPS on your phone? Then Google and others can and do use that to access your photos, which also use gps for location tags. It all just means this: be careful, you have no privacy.

I think I will stick to my silly out dated ugly looking cell phone that is almost 5 years old......no gps for me ....... I can read a map, and picture taking will only get your in to more trouble then it is worth.......just ask those jar heads in the stan who were taking a piss break......dum ass Marines

Dumb phone Good!!
Smart phone Bad!!