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The Telecom Digest for August 29, 2012
Volume 31 : Issue 206 : "text" Format
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Re: Don't download that app: US presidential candidates will STALK you with it (Jon Danniken)
Re: Study says drivers, not cellphones, pose the accident risk (Pete Cresswell)

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Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 07:06:20 -0700
From: Jon Danniken <jonSPAMdanniken@yaSMPAhoo.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re:  Don't download that app: US presidential  candidates will STALK  you with it
Message-ID: <k1ij8p$3qc$1@speranza.aioe.org>

On 08/21/2012 06:06 AM, Monty Solomon wrote:
> [snip]
> Both Android apps slurp the details of users' contacts and log
> location data, as a rundown by GFI on both apps and the permissions
> they seek explains. The Romney app even requests permission to record
> audio for unspecified (and so-far unactivated) purposes.
>
> ...
>
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/20/us_pres_campaign_mobile_app_privacy/
> 

I think the worst part is that most of the mobile users probably won't 
really care all that much.

Jon




Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 19:29:59 -0400
From: Pete Cresswell <PeteCress@invalid.telecom-digest.org>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re:  Study says drivers, not cellphones, pose the  accident risk
Message-ID: <6nkq38d2s8c33il39mmbr7ltaijcm75je6@4ax.com>

Per Monty Solomon:
>there's bad news: People who chat behind the 
>wheel often drive more aggressively even after they hang up, 

Rightly or wrongly, I consider myself something of a connoisseur
of drivers who yak and drive at the same time.

My observation is that these people are anything but
aggressive.  Quite the opposite... If there's, say, a 17 percent
chance that some yo-yo cruising the hammer lane at my speed is
going to put pedal to metal when he sees me start to signal for a
lane change and accelerate to pass somebody, I'd say the chances
fall to almost nothing if he's yakking on a cell phone.  

My suspicion is that his lower brain stem is in control of the
vehicle while his pre-frontal cortex is occupied with the phone
call.

Rather than aggression, to me the hallmarks of somebody talking
while driving are drifting over the line with no signal and then
drifting back again; varying speed for no apparent reason (until
you   see the phone...); changing lanes with no signal AND
without checking the lane they're moving into; and drifting on to
the shoulder at lane speed.
-- 
Pete Cresswell






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