Android Phones May Be Harvesting Data

American Voices

Android Phones May Be Harvesting Data

December 5, 2011 | ISSUE 47•49

A developer discovered a hard-to-detect bit of software on Android phones that tracks your location, phone calls, and text messages, and report them back to its maker. What do you think?

What a relief! Now I can stop writing down detailed accounts of my day to send to my phone company.

Lawrence Kinney
Systems Analyst
Oh, great. When the network gains consciousness, it’s going to have atrocious grammar.

Sandy Nielsen
Hide Puller
I see nothing that could go wrong and lead to a dystopian society here! Doo doo doo. Off to work!

Arthur Johnson
Sand Tester

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