Palm responds to Pre privacy talk

"Joey Hess' 'Shy Jo blog showed codes being sent back to Palm, but the company insists that the information only includes information about "potential scenarios in which we might use a customer's information, all toward a goal of offering a great user experience".

""Palm takes privacy very seriously, and offers users ways to turn data collecting services on and off," said a statement from the company."
As Mr. Hess reported yesterday, it reports your location via GPS, what applications you use and for how long, dmesg and syslog dumps, and other data-- all on your bandwidth-- ed.

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