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After a week windows mobile 7 also joins the party along with Google Android and Apple iPhone, both companies are sued against stealing user sensitive data (like GPS cordinates which is user's pin point location) from user's mobile devices and transmitting over internet then stored at Google and Apple databases.

CNET reported the location tracking on Monday, almost a week after reports of similar tracking in Apple's iPhone and Google's Android mobile OS raised concerns that smartphones could be used by police, civil litigants, or abusive spouses to track an owner's movements over extended periods of time.

Microsoft Version:-
https://www.microsoft.com/windowsphone/en-us/howto/wp7/web/location-and-my-privacy.aspx
 

Sources:-
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/25/apple_sued_for_location_tracking/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/28/google_sued_over_android_location_tracking/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/27/windows_phone_location_tracking/

Got an iPhone? Launch Safari and visit Jailbreakme.com, then move the slider to the right; congratulations, your phone is now jailbroken.

This allows you to do an end run around Apple’s restrictive app store policies. It also lets malicious nogoodniks do an end run around the iPhone and Safari’s security restrictions. Even better, it works on the iPod Touch, iPad, and any other Apple device running the iOS 4.0.1 or later.

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