[LINK] Like Apple and Google, Microsoft collects location data on Windows Phone 7 users

[Birch, Jim]

Kim Holburn wrote:

> Google's approach, by contrast, records only the last few dozen
locations on Android phones.

I installed Google maps on my mobile phone recently.  During the
installation it asked if the app could sent location information back to
Google.  I said yes.  This is a WiFi but no-GPS phone but it did a
pretty good job of working out where I was.  I think this is from GPS
towers and scanning wifi network IDs but I don't know.  I guess this is
why Google snooped their WiFi database.  

It was brilliant for driving around the suburbs of a city I knew
minimally (Brisbane) except my phone screen was a bit small and I
couldn't get Google Maps to speak to me while driving - so I want a
bigger smarter phone now.

- Jim


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