'Google Defends Way It Gets Phone Data'

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Wallace

"Amid rising scrutiny of their practices, Google Inc. defended the way it collects
location data from Android phones, while Apple Inc. remained silent for a third day."
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703387904576279451001593760.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

these 'utilities' in the os by default are ON - they have to be clicked OFF
but besides the phones, I'm just wondering if there's any other 'data mining' going on
particularly 'portables' order entry/charting programs
and I'm thinking - given how many apps have been written for the IPhone, how hard is
it to write a trojan horse into an app to collect - bank account numbers/passwords
and how can that be protected against, tho once discovered they're shut down fast
 
One kind of firewall works: whitelisting... do all banking from a whitelisted computer. I recommend a Lenovo laptop for that, Lenovos are just bitchin'... dedicate one to all financial transactions and keep it behind a whitelisting firewall or you could walk in to your bank branch and trust THEM... THEY wouldn't embezzle, right???
 
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