Les téléphones équipés d'Android traquent aussi leurs utilisateurs. Android phones record user-locations according to research. Google's Android software collects data about the movements of users according to a Swedish researcher.
Photograph: Robert Galbraith/Reuters Smartphones running Google's Android software collect data about the user's movements in almost exactly the same way as the iPhone, according to an examination of files they contain. The discovery, made by a Swedish researcher, comes as the Democratic senator Al Franken has written to Apple's chief executive Steve Jobs demanding to know why iPhones keep a secret file recording the location of their users as they move around, as the Guardian revealed this week. Magnus Eriksson, a Swedish programmer, has shown that Android phones – now the bestselling smartphones – do the same, though for a shorter period. Apple, Google Send Cellphone Location.