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[Nvyseal]

images/news/apple.jpgSome iPhone applications are phoning home with some scarily detailed information about you and your usage patterns. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers dissect the news, and wonder if it's the spyware story all over again.

Once an iPhone application is pinchmedia enabled, on every execution of the application the following information is stored in a local SQLlite database:

* iPhone's unique ID
* iPhone Model
* OS Version
* Application version (in this case, camera zoom 1.x)
* If the application is cracked/pirated
* If your iPhone is jailbroken
* time & date you start the application
* time & date you close the application
* your current latitude & longitude
* your gender (if facebook enabled)
* your birth month (if facebook enabled)
* your birth year (if facebook enabled)

Your data is continually tracked ... they will record every use of the application for the life of that application on your phone. When finally you do have a connection, this information is sent automatically. ... At no point are you told what the pinchmedia enabled application is doing, at no time are you given an option to "opt-out".

Read on at Computerworld

[stormrosson]

F'n Steve Jobs and his cohorts, with the possible exception of the Woz, should have an Iphone shoved up their ass on a daily basis

[VoodooGuru]

I work in a MAC shop now and I still prefer a PC even though I have an Intel iMAC on my desktop... I'm slowly but surely infiltrating Windows servers into the server room. I have 5 servers in there now in just one year... we're deploying a new Windows based SAP solution for our business software. All of the users connect using RDP from their MACs making them basically very expensive dumb terminals... hee, hee...

[Sphere]

Ok, some details are kinda scary...

But erm, what apps do this, so they can be avoided?