I guess I'm glad I don't have a smartphone, displeased that I will have second thoughts purchasing one in the future, and concerned over the general direction we're headed with respect to online and mobile privacy.
But to be fair, I'm probably more comfortable with a massive company like Verizon handling this information rather than a small 3-person startup. Verizon may be technologically incompetent, but the stakes are too high for them to use the information in incriminating or corrupt ways; the same cannot be said about a startup that's about to flame out and will do _anything_ to save itself from doom (a small fraction but nonetheless one that surely exists).
But to be fair, I'm probably more comfortable with a massive company like Verizon handling this information rather than a small 3-person startup. Verizon may be technologically incompetent, but the stakes are too high for them to use the information in incriminating or corrupt ways; the same cannot be said about a startup that's about to flame out and will do _anything_ to save itself from doom (a small fraction but nonetheless one that surely exists).