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Google faces $50 million lawsuit over Android location tracking (arstechnica.com)
5 points by shrikant on April 30, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Summary: Android users can opt-in to having cell/wifi info tagged and reported hourly. Said opt-in is not clearly called out as including position reporting of this nature.

Its more invasive than iOS's tracking, in that its reported more frequently And it is tagged to the particular device id.




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