Your smart phone is a portable personal data machine that
records your every move. That's scary. For one, it's easy to
lose and for thieves to re-sell. And that's just the phone
itself. If the servers that hold all the information it collects
are ever hacked, your data could end up in someone else's hands,
too. That may also happen without any malicious interventions:
You're allowing mobile companies to collect your information and
share it with advertisers (or really, anyone), and you might not
even realize it. As discovered last spring, the iPhone tracks
your every move and sends it to Apple headquarters.  As smart
phones increase in popularity--36 percent of consumers in the
United States will use mobile Internet services by 2015 reports
Vega--privacy protection will only increase in importance. The
current methods are just baby steps, says Senator Al Franken the
chairman of the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on privacy,
technology and the law, who has proposed legislation to require
cell companies to obtai