Your Droid is probably spying on you.

[Homeslice]

Originally Posted by OneSickPsycho

Otherwise, is your phone provider or the company who writes the app really going to give your information to some chick you try to pick up at the grocery store or the big wig you want to impress at the fancy dinner?

I honestly think we're moving towards that day. With how everyone seems so laissez-faire about sharing their personal details on Facebook, linking their FB to tons of other sites, letting Gmail scan their emails for key words, etc.

Companies are starting to assume we don't care about privacy, or at least won't protest.....So they create default settings with no privacy protections, and you have to read 100 pages of fine print to even know they did that.

[Trip]

Originally Posted by Homeslice

I honestly think we're moving towards that day. With how everyone seems so laissez-faire about sharing their personal details on Facebook, linking their FB to tons of other sites, letting Gmail scan their emails for key words, etc.

Companies are starting to assume we don't care about privacy, or at least won't protest.....So they create default settings with no privacy protections, and you have to read 100 pages of fine print to even know they did that.

Is it the company's fault we are willing to give them this data or ours? I think it is ours. I don't put anything in email or on my phone that I don't want out there. So they know what type of bike I ride and what I buy with a credit card, that doesn't bother me. If it is something I care about, I pay cash or don't put it in electronic form.

[Homeslice]

Originally Posted by Trip

I don't put anything in email or on my phone that I don't want out there.

You are able to conduct all your personal/sensitive conversations face to face?

[Trip]

Originally Posted by Homeslice

You are able to conduct all your personal/sensitive conversations face to face?

I don't have any sensitive conversations on my personal phone or personal email address. My work email and work phone is very restrictive. Neither goes on my personal phone. If you want that level of security, droid and iphone aren't the way to go period. Just ask the UAE, if you want it private, go with a corporate controlled blackberry.