Oh, By the way: The Palm Pre phones home with your location

Re: Oh, By the way: The Palm Pre phones home with your loca... by byoung2 on Wednesday August 12, 2009 @05:53PM (#759374)

That sounds like something Apple would do. I think they should be more upfront about it, and set the default to "disabled" like most other phones with GPS do. While it would be very useful to know where people are and what programs they are using, this should be weighed against the (arguably) more important privacy concern.

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Re: Oh, By the way: The Palm Pre phones home with your loca... by jmtulloss on Wednesday August 12, 2009 @06:34PM (#759443)

It is disabled by default, you have to explicitly enable it when you first use the phone.

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Re: Oh, By the way: The Palm Pre phones home with your loca... by teeja on Wednesday August 12, 2009 @07:04PM (#759490)

Does it explicitly tell you want it's going to be sending on a daily basis?

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Re: Oh, By the way: The Palm Pre phones home with your loca... by jmtulloss on Wednesday August 12, 2009 @07:47PM (#759599)

For the location stuff, yes.

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Re: Oh, By the way: The Palm Pre phones home with your loca... by dickwad on Thursday August 13, 2009 @11:58AM (#761044)

I don't have a pre, but I want to get to the bottom of this. The interwebs is saying that this is enabled by default, not by user prompt. Can you clear up my confusion? It's a propmt when you first turn on the phone? Does the carrier maybe turn it on before sending the phone (for some carriers) causing the confusion?

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