Think Palm and iPhone ‘Spyware’ is Scary? How Android is Spying on you

How is it a problem if someone you purchase a product from has your billing information? Pretty standard customer data to have if you're an ecommerce firm, just as stated in the article.

This was not well thought-out.

If you were any other sort of vendor charging people money and accepting credit cards, you'd have exactly the same sort of information.

Move along. Nothing to see here.

Poorly written. I think he was trying for mockery of the Palm and iPhone privacy concerns, but simply wrote something that sounded like clueless paranoia, with a last-minute "Oh, wait..." revelation at the end.

Irony - if you don't know what you're doing, leave it for the pros.

I think the other comments on this thread may have missed something. The problem isn't that your personal information is revealed upon purchase. The problem is that Android applications, with their "phone home" tech, allow some really creepy locational tracking. If you buy my GPS app, I now have your name, phone number....AND I can find out exactly where you are every time you use my application.

It's not the personal information that raises hair on the back of my neck, it's that in combination with the ability to track your exact location in conjunction with the aforementioned information.

While sending your info to merchants you purchase from may be a 'no duh' piece of information...it does raise some tricky implications.