Microsoft?s ?Locationgate? ends with Mango

Microsoft has updated its Windows Phone platform to address what is now presumed to have been a bug that caused phones to gather location data before a user opted in to such services. Windows Phone developer�Rafael Rivera last week revealed that Microsoft’s mobile platform was exhibiting behavior that directly contradicted earlier claims the company made to the United States�government. Microsoft’s new “Mango” update, however, appears to have remedied the matter. Read on for more. “Microsoft only collects information to help determine a phone?s approximate location if (a) the user has allowed an application to access and use location data, and (b) that application actually requests the location data,” Microsoft said recently in a letter to the U.S. House of Representatives.

Source: http://www.bgr.com/2011/09/30/microsofts-locationgate-ends-with-mango/

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