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With iPhone and next-generation smartphone, the user is found for the first time having to worry about what they do all the applications that download to your phone. The functionality and behavior are not always crystal clear to developers and advertisers are likely to seriously compromise your privacy.

It all started when a programmer has noticed that the Palm Operating System Pre sends daily coordinates GPS users to Palm. And although this behavior was clearly shown in the privacy policy of the company, no user was virtually unaware. And iPhone is not doing better.

As far as I know, Apple does not practice any profiling of its users through the applications installed on the iPhone. However, according to the opinion of some developers, the company analyzes the mobile market Pinch Media may be regarded as a Spyware. And the list of information to steal without your knowledge is literally frightening:

Unique ID the iPhone

Model iPhone owned

Operating System Version

Version in use

If the application is pirated

If the phone is jailbreak

Time and date of starting / closing of

GPS’s

Gender, month and year of birth (if Facebook is installed)

Following the disclosure of this information, Pinch Media has promptly issued a press release in which it states that its services had benign nature and which serve to aid developers in their work then we would not be faced with malicious software, with clear intent malicious or that allow users to identify unambiguously. According to the company, in the absence of malice, and sensitive data (phone numbers, email and so on) you can not talk about spyware.

The fact remains that a huge number of user information is used indiscriminately, without adequate prior information and, above all, without a way to disable sending. If you are legitimately worried about the matter can scroll a list of applications involved, updated in real time, and on what type of information disclosed.