XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.internet.wireless   
   From: alice.jones-donotspam@ptd.net   
      
   In message XnsA5AA3411298CD4AM2@207.246.207.121, pamela said:   
      
   > In addition to what's been discussed, the Play Store informs the authors   
   > of an Android app who installed their app including email address and   
   > various other info.   
   >   
   >    "every App purchase you make on Google Play gives the developer your   
   >    name, suburb and email address with no indication that this   
   >    information is actually being transferred. With the information I   
   >    have available to me through the checkout portal I could track down   
   >    and harass users who left negative reviews or refunded the app   
   >    purchase."   
   >   
   >  privacy-issue>   
   >   
   > To speculate, perhaps this includes Google Maps info, IP address, names   
   > of other apps installed, cell phone transmitter location - who knows   
   > what.   
      
   This is very interesting that every *installation* gives the devloper   
   our Google Play account information!   
      
   Is that true?   
   Does anyone here have a developer account?   
      
   What information do you get?   
      
   PS: Luckily, all mine is made up, but if they get the phone number   
       and the "city" (you wrote "suburb" whatever that means), that   
       can only be attained by geolocation of my device at the time   
       of the download (or by IP address geolocation) since it's not   
       in the normal Google Play account signup.   
      
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