A day after a report that the Apple iPhone and iPad 3G are storing data about users’ locations, a new report from the market research firm Nielsen said many Americans have strong concerns about losing some privacy by using location-based mobile services.
Authors of the report said that although some Americans happily engage with a new crop of location-based applications, many “are reticent to share information about their geographic location.Location-based services, including, Google Maps, Foursquare, Gowalla and Facebook Places, have seen heavy adoption in recent years as more Americans have moved from standard mobile phones to smartphones that come with GPS. But not everyone is persuaded of their benefits.
If you are concerned about the infringement on your personal privacy by corporations or the government through these tracking programs you might want to consider removing them from your cell phone. Go to the listing of your installed apps on your cell phone and look for apps which say "share location" or anything related to that effect and remove them. Removing these apps will not affect your cell phone or the other programs you use. As the manufacturers of cell phones become more and more sophisticated to hide or embed these programs into your electronic devices, request your cell phone provider to give you a list of all the programs, including tracking devices apps installed on your phone.
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