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Privacy and smartphones

I am doing research on location-aware devices and privacy. Thanks for participating!

Do you regularly use a smartphone? (iphone, android, blackberry, etc)

91% (22) yes
8% (2) no

24 voters have answered this question.

Do you use any location-aware applications on your phone? (loopt/facebook/twitter, cab4me, yelp, etc)

75% (18) yes
25% (6) no

24 voters have answered this question.

Do you leave your location setting on or off by default? smartphones allow you to control whether 3rd party location based applications have access to your phone's location information.

45% (11) I leave my location access set to ON by default
54% (13) I leave my location access set to OFF by default

24 voters have answered this question.

Are you concerned about privacy when using location-aware applications on your smartphone?

58% (14) yes
41% (10) no

24 voters have answered this question.

Do you know or understand how information gathered from using location-aware applications is used?

37% (9) yes
62% (15) no

24 voters have answered this question.

Any other thoughts or concerns about privacy and smartphones? Is there a question you might add to this poll?

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7 voters have answered this question.

This poll was created on 2010-07-15 03:57:34 by halifax
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