An intrepid Android user has found a bug in the HTC Incrediblethat raises some potential privacy concerns.

As BGR reports, the HTC Sense UI takes screenshots of your web browser for its bookmark widget that are not actually deleted from your phone’s internal storage — even after a factory reset. These screenshots are then accessible by anyone who has the know-how to navigate the phone’s internal data structure on his/her desktop.

We don’t have an HTC Incredible or DROID Incredible on-hand to test ourselves, but BGR reports that it was able to confirm that these temporary screenshots were not deleted after clearing the browser cache, software resets or even a full factory reset on more than one stock, un-rooted DROID Incredible unit.

The problem worsens when you hear about what some of these screenshots contain — it’s more than just news pages or login screens. BGR notes that it was able to find screenshots of Facebook (from when the user was logged in) as well as screenshots that show a logged-in session at a banking website.

Again, the problem isn’t so much that the phone takes random screenshots of your browsing sessions — that’s part of how the HTC Sense bookmark widget works (though we will note that we are troubled that SSL or encrypted site contents are not automatically excluded from these random screenshot intervals) — the problem is that these images can only be removed by manually finding them in the file system and deleting them.

While getting to these screenshots right now is a convoluted process, it’s not hard to imagine a program or script that could make pulling up that data easy.

This is just another example of a potential privacy hole in today’s digital landscape. It’s bad enough when services like Facebook or Google Buzz accidentally reveal private information, still, you could make the argument that that is a potential risk of using such services. However, with bugs like this, users who don’t do anything but use their devices as intended could potentially leave their data at risk.

While we fully expect HTC to issue some sort of update to its affected products, this incident is just more food for thought in the ongoing digital privacy debate.

A new service called Yahoo Pulse will one-up Google Buzz by offering privacy tools and integration with Facebook news feeds on the Yahoo home page, The Wall Street Journal reports.

The Pulse site will behave a bit like Threadsy or the desktop appTweetDeck, aggregating real-time updates from Facebook alongside other social networks.

Yahoo has been trying for months to make itself the ultimate starting page for Internet users; you can already view your Facebook and Twitter feeds using Yahoo’s “Quick View” feature, but Yahoo Pulse will provide an improved, tabbed interface and offer new kinds of integrations in Yahoo and Yahoo Mail.

Notably, Yahoo Pulse will have a privacy menu that will apply to multiple services. That feature will be an important draw for some users, given that Facebook has dealt with a big privacy backlash in recent weeks. Just don’t expect it to add completely new privacy features to your Facebook account.

The privacy angle is also pertinent when you consider that Google — Yahoo’s chief rival — made some major privacy errors that greatly hindered the launch of Google Buzz, a very similar service. Those faux pas and the lack of Facebook integration prevented Buzz from becoming a killer application. Pulse is Yahoo’s answer to Buzz; maybe it learned from its rival’s mistakes.

The specifics of the new interface and integrations have not yet been revealed, but it’s all expected to launch within a few days. We’re curious to hear what kinds of integrations with Facebook Yahoo users would like to see, so let us know in the comments.