Warning: Google Found Another Way To Invade Your Privacy

http://images.askmen.com/entertainme...8418-flash.jpg
A couple of days ago TheNew York Times reported that Apple’s iOS was mistakenly giving access toyourphotos if you grant an application access to location services. Today, Google hasretaliated, saying, “We see your heinous bug and raise!” Buttoday NYT is reporting that Android is less secure in this regard, and stores photos in a central location that’saccessible to any app that wants them. So it takes no user interaction or approval for adeveloper to grab your images off of your mobile or tablet, regardless of the Androidversion. Google responded to the revelation bysaying that, since Android was designed like a desktop system like Windows or Mac OS X,it built the file system this way -- in effect, saying, “It’s not abug.” No, it just looks, smells and acts like one. Google said it willconsider changing the way pictures are handled in Android, but nothing is officiallyplanned. Android’s seen an over 3,000% rise in malware this year, and the recentshady browser-tracking maneuvers by Google make us think that the FTC’s torchlightwill be motivation enough to fix this colossal privacy-risk feature of the operatingsystem. The explanation “This was designedlike a desktop OS” is Google’s less-than-forthcoming way of saying “Wescrewed up.” Besides, desktop OSes aren’t going to be allowing this type ofaccess without user intervention for much longer. Applications that are downloaded fromthe App Store in Apple’s forthcoming 10.8 (MountainLion) OS cannot initiate something like uploading an image without a user explicitlydoing so. It’s called “sandboxing,” and it’s a standard securityfeature that is implemented in any OS that exposes user info to the internet. You have to give the application permission to step out of its sandbox. Google’s face-savingattempt is misleading, but ironically makes it look worse. It’s like saying,“We didn’t know how modern operating systems work.” Google, meet Mr.Internet. Now hand Mr. Internet your camera and step into the fountain so it can takeyour photograph. Continue Reading

http://www.askmen.com/entertainment/guy_gear_300/357_android-apps-and-your-photos.html ]More...[/url]

i saw this on the news the other day also. tracking the areas you visit in your pics to market you better. wtf is up with this? anything and everything to make a buck

These asshole have got a hold of one of my private emails and have been flooding it with nothing but spam lately! I dont even use that email account either, but ever since google did that shit through youtube i've been getting a shit load of spam! We gave them power when we started influencing kids in grade school to use google instead of yahoo, aol, msn, ect to search! And now that generation knows only to use google for searchs! Fucking googleing bastards!

Yeah, that's really messed up. Good thing I didn't sign up for Google Plus!

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Skeletor

Yeah, that's really messed up. Good thing I didn't sign up for Google Plus!

---

I second that.

Thats nuts. Privacy is no longer a word in our society. You can go out in your back yard naked and take a leak and someone can view you from a satellite and take your picture. You can be watched in your house if you have a webcam on your computer