I am intrigued to know if those that complain about 'Big Brother', have Tracker devices fitted to their vehicles, refuse to go to fuel stations that have forecourt surveillance cameras or even question department stores by asking under what authority are they recording their actions in their shop? Even our local tip has a plate recogniser that flashes your reg on an LED display as you go in. Some here use iWhatevers for flight planning etc. I take it that you have location services switched off and take all actions to prevent being tracked.
The Register
The researchers used three HTC smartphones for the tests: a Magic and a Passion, both running Android, and a Tytn II running Windows Mobile. Among the 21 apps tested were browsers, photo uploaders, newspaper apps, mapping, Twitter, and games like chess, Sudoku and Angry Birds.
The breakdowns are interesting: in the free Angry Birds app, the researchers found, user tracking accounted for 45 percent of power consumption, one-third of which is devoted to GPS tracking. To this the app adds the energy used in uploading user information and downloading ads.
As I said before, if a particular hotel has to keep a record of movements to show the usage of the site, would you mind giving your details then, or was it the hotels mention of the Police asking them to take your details that upsets more?