After taking a closer look at the Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Pre’s operating system, there’s a handful of items that the device is reporting back to Palm on a daily basis, reports PreCentral.net. Some of them make sense, such as reporting when an app crashes or which apps you’ve installed, but the one that got people upset today was that the device is telling Palm your location.
In response, Phone Scoop reports Palm has issued the following statement: “Palm takes privacy very seriously, and offers users ways to turn data collecting services on and off. Our privacy policy is like many policies in the industry and includes very detailed language about potential scenarios in which we might use a customer’s information, all toward a goal of offering a great user experience. For instance, when location based services are used, we collect their information to give them relevant local results in Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Maps. We appreciate the trust that users give us with their information, and have no intention to violate that trust.”

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