Our first meeting of the Android Smartphone Interest Group was well attended and demonstrated the strong interest in this technology area. Robert Boren talked about security issues and showed the ‘extensive’ data that Google collects on your usage and how to check and limit the data they collect on you. Donald McIver then gave a Powerpoint presentation on useful Android apps; a pdf version of which can be downloaded here. A question and answer session showed a wealth of topics for further meetings.