Uh Oh! The Palm Pre Spies on Me!
This post was published 7 months 8 days ago which may make its actuality or expire date not be valid anymore. This site is not responsible for any misunderstanding.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.
I think you are just bitching, its way better then what apple wants to do, ie brick your phone if they don’t like you.
Do you get your panties all bunched up every time a website recognizes what OS you are running and browser?
Oh and I hate palm, so I’m not sticking up for them because of fanboyism
No, I have my issues with the iPhone too – and have called them out on it. Apple’s OS calls home too… I don’t like when things aren’t documented and the user is fully aware of what their device is doing!
Who cares what the magic box is doing, it was blessed upon us from the gods, it is not for mere mortals to understand.
PS, I have been coming to this site for years, and lately there has been too little posting, get yourself some more staff, I want stuff to read!
We are working on it :)
Not to push, but I agree :P more content!
I’m sorry but I’d have to agree with Dan here, they’re not knowing that your using a specific software from a specifiec IP, but they have info on every software your using including 3rd party tools and your GPS position as you use these software adds to a very severe security risk (yes, Dan forgot to mention GPS info was transferred back to Palm).
I like this site. Don’t worry about posting more stuff, just keep the quality high!
Whiners… STFU!!! Here’s Palm’s upload info: http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/Palm_Pre_privacy/
iPhones spies on you as well, iphony owners that wanna stick they nose in…
- http://www.slashgear.com/iphone-spyware-debated-as-app-library-phones-home-1752491/
- http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2007/11/12686/
Ooh oops i just wrote a huge comment and as soon as i hit post it came up blank! Please tell me it worked right? I dont want to sumit it again if i do not have to! Either the blog glitced out or i am just stuipd, the latter doesnt surprise me lol.