Motorola secretly spies on Droid phone users every 9 minutes, collects personal data

[damnedifIknow]

"You know the NSA is “listening,” nabbing Verizon customers’ cell phone metadata, but did you know that Motorola is listening too? A security engineer with a Motorola Droid X2 smartphone discovered that Motorola is silently slurping up personal info like passwords, GPS data from photos, email addresses, and usernames to name but a few. His phone is checking in with Motorola every nine minutes. Even worse, the data is often sent over an unencrypted HTTP channel. As a Slashdot comment stated, “The NSA would like to thank Motorola for their cooperation.”

"Motorola's software is “responsible for the personal and configuration data being sent to Motorola,” Lincoln explained. In fact, Motorola is siphoning social networking account data and capturing usernames and passwords for Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Picasa and Photobucket. After signing into Facebook or Twitter, Lincoln warns:

http://blogs.computerworld.com/smartphones/22435/motorola-secretly-spies-droid-phone-users-every-9-minutes-collects-personal-data

[djean111]

1. Oh, well, see - now that it is not a secret, no one should care!

And they have been doing this for a while, so where was the outrage then?
If you don't call or email or log into sites or look at photos that are terroristy, you have nothing to worry about!!!!!

[uponit7771]

2. Motorola is NOT Obama, cant bash the CEO like one can bash Obama the worse the Bush guy