Not something directly related to posting photos, but relevant to downloadable apps for tablets and mobile phones that caught my eye in the New York Times yesterday.
Data-Gathering via Apps Presents a Gray Legal Area".....What is going on, according to experts, is that applications like Angry Birds and even more innocuous-seeming software, like that which turns your phone into a flashlight, defines words or delivers Bible quotes, are also collecting personal information, usually the user’s location and sex and the unique identification number of a smartphone. But in some cases, they cull information from contact lists and
pictures from photo libraries.
As the Internet goes mobile, privacy issues surrounding phone apps have moved to the front lines of the debate over what information can be collected, when and by whom. Next year, more people around the world will gain access to the Internet through
mobile phones or tablet computers than from desktop PCs, according to Gartner, the research group."
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