Uh Oh! The Palm Pre Spies on Me!
Trouble in Palm land! Seems that the Palm Pre and its WebOS is quite a tattle tale on its user.
Developer Joey Hess started noticed his Palm Pre was sending something to Palm once a day. After some traffic sniffing Joey discovered the Pre was transmitting a list of every application installed as well as how long the applications were used and crash logs. To top it all off the Pre also sends to Palm a list of third-party applications you installed. Shameful!
Palm chimes in on the whole privacy matter:
Palm takes privacy very seriously, and offers users ways to turn data collecting services on and off. Our privacy policy is like many policies in the industry and includes very detailed language about potential scenarios in which we might use a customer’s information, all toward a goal of offering a great user experience. For instance, when location based services are used, we collect their information to give them relevant local results in Google Maps. We appreciate the trust that users give us with their information, and have no intention to violate that trust.
Palm also went on record to say that these reports are permitted in their TOS. Kinda makes me think twice about my Pre.
