iPhone GPS tracking
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- Boz0
Boom!.. Google pitches in
- ukit0
They should fix it. According to that Gizmodo article, Microsoft at least offers similar services without permanently capturing so much info.
On the other hand, if you want to be paranoid, there is plenty of ammunition out there. Google tracks everything you ever searched for and has access to all your e-mail along with a fair amount of personal data. Ad companies have tracking cookies (often hidden as Flash LSOs that can't be easily located or deleted) embedded on almost everyone's machines. The government has the legal right to access any of your online communications without a warrant under the guise of fighting terrorism.
What does it all amount to? Probably nothing, because no one gives a shit about you personally. But if you want to be paranoid about privacy, plenty of stuff to freak out about.
- TheMagicSheep0
i don't get it...who really gives a fuck? honestly?
they can see who i've called!? an approximation of where i've been in the past!? oh noes!
what exactly is the big fucking deal here.
- Boz0
sending data back to Apple yes.. not the stored information and your movement.. the only way you can prevent this is if you A) encrypt your backups through iTunes B) Jailbreak your phone and download that app that kills it.
- doesnotexist0
wouldn't turning off your location services solve this?
- PublicVoice0
Don't worry. Google is not keeping tabs on you. Or Microsoft, either.
- BusterBoy0
Is there a windows version of that app?
- dskz0
I just flash my boobs at them.
- Ramanisky20
so let me get this straight, someone out there is watching me strum my filthies... live and in real time?
that's hawt..
- Boz0
"The tech press was abuzz Wednesday with reports that devices running iOS 4 are tracking your friends, co-workers, and family members through an unencrypted ten-digit phone number and other identifying information, including their first and last name. Apple has not commented publicly on the controversy and it's unclear whether Cupertino is even collecting this data, but Minnesota Sen. Al Franken has penned a letter asking Apple for more details.
"The existence of these ten-digit numbers, stored in an unencrypted format—raises serious privacy concerns," Franken, a Democrat, wrote to Apple's Steve Jobs. "Anyone who gains access to these numbers, in conjunction with the first and last names, could use them for all kinds of nefarious actions. They could find out who you called, when, and how long the calls lasted. They might even make contact themselves with anyone you've ever called. It's disgusting!"
In the House, Rep. Edward Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, sent his own letter to Jobs with a request for information.
A Wednesday blog post published on O'Reilly Radar claimed that devices running iOS 4 are keeping all this personal information and storing it an unencrypted manner. The data is being stored to a file known as "contacts," which is easily discovered on a user's iPhone.
"What makes this issue worse is that the file is unencrypted and unprotected, and it's on any machine you've synched with your iOS device. It can also be easily accessed on the device itself if it falls into the wrong hands. Anybody with access to this file knows who you've called, and when," wrote Pete Warden, founder of the Data Science Toolkit, and Alasdair Allan, a senior research fellow at the University of Exeter.
But while this data is being stored on your phones and iOS devices, Warden and Allan acknowledge that there is no "evidence to suggest this data is leaving your custody"--aka, being sent to Apple. There is also "no immediate harm that would seem to come from the availability of this data."
"True," Franken said. "But anyone who finds a lost or stolen iPhone or iPad could easily map out the last year of the user's phone calls, through the manipulation of data. And it'd be pretty easy to make a bunch of phone calls to China, too."
As a result, Franken asked Apple to share why it is allowing its devices to keep this information unencrypted, among other things. He also said that Apple should acknowledge ripping off Dieter Rams if they are going to start suing people for ripping them off."
- kona0
let them watch my boring fucking life, driving to and from work with the occasional stop at a starbucks here and there. the jokes on them.
- dskz0
Damnit they will know about my broken toilet incident.
- ernexbcn0
- lol.. that's not the same thing at all.. he tried to hack Android phone and requires root and doesn't cache as much and tracks towers not your location.. it's a joke fanboy..Boz
- tracks towers not your location.. it's a joke fanboy.. Face it.. APPLE FUCKED UP! Stop defending shit where they are obviously in the wrong and let them fix it.. stop defending something that's wrong.Boz
- obviously in the wrong and let them fix it.. stop defending something that's wrong.Boz
- The iPhone one is tracking towers, not locations. So how is it not the same thing?Nathan_Adams
- dMullins0
If you think that's bad, take a look at this shit going on in Michigan.
- ESKEMA0
Those maps remind me of World of Goo
- kingsteven0
- that'd be coolset
- actually, i did find out... it's in the article - i want to meake it easier.kingsteven