How safe is your mobile phone

BILLMCC66 · Dec 18, 2010

Your details are being distributed by applications on your phone.

Few devices know more personal details about people than the smartphones in their pockets: phone numbers, current location, often the owner's real name—even a unique ID number that can never be changed or turned off.

These phones don't keep secrets. They are sharing this personal data widely and regularly, a Wall Street Journal investigation has found.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704694004576020083703574602.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

DavidGP · Dec 18, 2010

Good Article Bill and one that has worried me for a whiles is the amount of apps that want to know your location, as they mention in the article why the hell do basic apps like Paper Toss need to know your location, likely its for the advertising that many of these iPhone/droid apps have.

I have a WinMo6.5 phone that has google maps built in with a app called Google Lattitude and using what most smart phones have in GPS built in these days its DAMN scary how accurate it is in lising for your friends etc where you are if its left on.

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How safe is your mobile phone

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