Oh, By The Way: The Palm Pre Phones Home With Your Location
by Greg Kumparak on August 12, 2009

This is going to end well, and no one will be upset about this. Also, everything I said in that last sentence is probably wrong.

When Debian developer Joey Hess started tinkering with webOS, he noticed that it was sending something to Palm once a day. Surely, Palm wasn’t sending anything too potentially incriminating without making it blatantly obvious to the user, right? Wrong.

Update: Updated with Palm’s statement on the matter.

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