In Android’s case, cookies or other mechanisms could potentially
track users’ web surfing behavior. Factor in geo-location capabilities,
and suddenly Google could know a lot more about you—what you do
online, what sites you visit, where you shop, where you roam in the
real world, when, and even, conceivably, with whom.
For that matter, Google even has a mapping app called Google
Latitude that lets you track the physical location of the other people
in your network. Apps like Loopt from Loopt Inc, and Where, from
uLocate, bring the capability to other mobile devices.
Advocacy groups such as the Center for Digital Democracy and the
U.S. Public Interest Research Group are so alarmed by these kinds of
advancements that they petitioned the Federal Trade