You're conflating Android and Chrome with their open source projects. All phone-home code is added in a separate layer from the open source codebase. The Android Open Source Project (AOSP) and the Chromium open source project are both free of tracking.<div>
<br></div><div>-- Eric<br><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:47 AM, Drachen Birch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:drachen.birch@gmail.com">drachen.birch@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Considering how much data scraping and invasive profiling Google does<br>
already, are you sure you want to use their base system for this? I<br>
thought the point was to get away from centralized power like MS and<br>
Google. The cell phone is the pen-ultimate invasive client, exceeded<br>
only by RF chips and implants :) Look in their Chrome browser. There<br>
is a place for you to change the DEFAULT of "allow websites to track my<br>
physical location" Hello? Seems like a not very freedom-enabling<br>
technology to me...<br>
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