I-phone-home ~ Checking in on the iPhone apps that are checking in.

Ladies and Gentleman welcome to 1984, except big brother isn’t government but tons of small data mining software companies which have now started to jump on the iphone band wagon.

The iphone is an always connected, GPS location aware, computer which also carries your entire list of contacts.

some apps are very willing to grab as much of this data from you as they can. So buyer beware.

case in point:

MAJOR PRIVACY INVADER —-> REMOTE JUNIOR

Phones home each contact in your address book, their email addresses, their phone numbers, your longitude and latitude and more!!!!

Specifically:

1) All Contact Names, Email Addresses and Phone numbers!!!
2) your exact location longitute / latitute
3) your phones names
4) OS version #
5) phones unique ID