A PC Authority report explores the balance between the use of smartphones and maintaining anonymity. The level of privacy a person can achieve depends on two things, the author writes, "the degree to which you use location-based services and social networking" and "the amount of personal information that the particular phone records and transmits." Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim said the Privacy Act requires "organisations to explain a number of things to individuals before collecting their personal information," but, the report states, without some kind of warning on smartphones that data collection is happening, "users start to feel it's hidden."
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