by Amy Lee
The next time you spend an hour Googling that weird rash on your arm, keep in mind that hundreds of bugs are watching too -- and that you may never know who knows what you've been doing or what they might do with that knowledge. The recent revelation that iPhones were storing the precise location data of their owners has led to serious concern from users who had no idea it was happening. "We don't have the kinds of tools that we would like to have to figure out who is tracking us and what they're collecting," said Peter Eckersley, senior staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "We're working with ad hoc methods."...[continued]
