100% of Dell computers, when submerged under water and turned on, would short circuit and crash.
Therefore, HP computers are better although no study was ever performed on HP computers.
Without a study of competing smartphones, there is no way to know if this is an Android specific problem or a problem with GPS enabled smartphones in general.
Regardless though, answer the following questions:
1. Will Android give the app access to GPS without asking the user first? Yes or No?
2. Will Linux give an app access to system files without asking the user first? Yes or No?
3. Will OS X give an app access to system files without asking the user first? Yes or No?
Now, for each above, if the user gave the application permission to do what it asked for, and that application did something nasty, would you blame the OS on the device? Wait, let me guess, the answer is "Yes" for #1 and "No" for #2 and #3.
Many Android apps reveal user data
Summary
A variety of popular applications for the Android mobile operating system have been found to reveal user data to advertisers, according to a study.
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A variety of popular applications for the Android mobile operating system have been found to reveal user data to advertisers, it was announced on Wednesday.
The study (PDF), conducted by Intel Labs, Penn State and Duke University, used an application developed for the project named TaintDroid to analyse how private user information was obtained and released by apps downloaded to the Android phones.
In a sample of 30 popular Android applications, 15 were found to send users' geographical information to advertisers' servers and seven sent unique hardware identifiers. In some cases, phone numbers and SIM card serials were sent. The applications tended to tell the user what data they would access, but not disclose who they would proceed to route the data to.
For more of this story, read Report: Some Android apps leak user data on ZDNet UK.
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