Same thing goes for android phones. Google is very big on collecting EVERYTHING, and selling it. And location is a very saleable item.
On 04/21/2011 02:51:42 PM, Osama Khalid wrote: > The first thing that came to my mind when I read about iPhone's > tracking ability[0] was what Eben Moglen said in his keynote in > FOSDEM > just a couple of months ago: > > > Friends of ours, people seeking freedom, are going to get arrested, > > beaten, tortured, and eventually killed somewhere on earth because > > they’re depending for their political survival in their movements > > for freedom on technology we know is built to sell them out. > > > > I don’t want anybody taking life or death risks to make freedom > > somewhere carrying an iPhone. Because I know what the iPhone can be > > doing to him without our having any way to control it, stop it, > help > > it, or even know it is going on. > > I feel very bad for those activists in the Arab world (and everywhere > else) who may be in great danger because of these records. > > Yet another reason why we should work very hard on making the > Freedombox > real, deployable and easy-to-use. > > [0]: http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/04/apple-location-tracking.html > > --Osama Khalid > ------quoted attachment------ > _______________________________________________ > Freedombox-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss > > -- "This message may have been intercepted and read by U.S. government agencies including the FBI, CIA, and NSA and/or the present government of Thailand without notice or warrant or knowledge of sender or recipient." John Francis Lee 246/3 Thanon Kaew Wai Mueang Chiangrai 57000 Thailand _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
