'The row over the privacy of mobile phone users escalated today as it was revealed that Google devices regularly transmit user locations back to the company.The new revelations come after Apple was this week slammed by several Congress members for the way user locations are being stored in unencrypted databases on the iPhone and iPad, sometimes stretching back several months. In Google’s case an Android HTC phone tracked its location every few seconds and transmitted the data back to Google several times an hour, according to new research by security analyst Samy Kamkar for the Wall Street Journal. It also transmitted the name, location and signal strength of any close Wi-Fi networks and the phone’s unique identifier.'..
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