Does Palm collect information from your Palm Pre or does not? Can it after all?

While many netizens of the blogosphere are speculating about that data on the location and app used on the Palm's Pre smartphone is being sent to Palm the information remains unconfirmed and proofless. Responding to the request sent by MSNBC.COM to Palm the company said the following:

"Palm takes privacy very seriously, and offers users ways to turn data collecting services on and off. Our privacy policy is like many policies in the industry and includes very detailed language about potential scenarios in which we might use a customer's information, all toward a goal of offering a great user experience. For instance, when location based services are used, we collect their information to give them relevant local results in Google Maps. We appreciate the trust that users give us with their information, and have no intention to violate that trust." 

Meantime, mobile application developer Joey Hess says that having closely researched the code in his Pre's WebOS he revealed that the phone was periodically sending information to Palm. As MSNBS noted information on WebOS crashes is very probable but the assertion Palm is gathering users' GPS information, along with data on every app used, and for how long you used it looks improbable.

Hess says that without hacking into WebOS one cannot disable this alleged communication. Meanwhile, the Terms of Use specified by Palm show that the company has the right to "collect, store, access, disclose, transmit, process, and otherwise use your Registration Data, account or Device information," and may also do the same with your location data to provide location services. Besides, the terms also designate that Palm can disclose "any information" to law enforcement authorities.