iPhone GPS tracking
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- 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.
- Nathan_Adams0
Boz - where did Gruber say anything like that? Looks like you're making up shit.
http://daringfireball.net/linked…- He says good work, nothing to sensationalize. REALLY?!... that piece of shit.. I hate his useless Apple balls sucking guts.Boz
- guts. Google accidentaly scans unprotected wifi signals and it's the end of world and this is not a big deal..Boz
- What a spineless asshole.Boz
- He says good work to the guys who expose it, and that's apparently sucking Apple's balls?Nathan_Adams
- Google's wifi scanning is much more concerning to me than this.Nathan_Adams
- RIGHT!.. Google was catching the opened Wifi signals anyone can do going through a community dumbass..Boz
- Gruber didn't say good job.. he said they didn't "sensationalize" it as it is not a big deal.. IT IS A FUCKING BIG DEAL.Boz
- No, good job for reporting the *facts*, and not assuming things. Learn some reading comprehension.Nathan_Adams
- monNom0
meh, not invasve enough.
- 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.
- Nathan_Adams0
Some more info on what is happening. It seems it's more about keeping track of the cell towers you connect to, rather than where you are:
http://www.willclarke.net/?p=247…- fanboi...LOLBusterBoy
- Apple PR machinery is in motion!!! They didn't say a word .. but the hordes are working for them now..Boz
- At the end of it.. it will turn out this was all done for the good of consumers!Boz
- How is fanboi-ish or apple pr? It's a link to someone who actually looked in to it.Nathan_Adams
- They're not justifying it - they're just clarifying what is actually happening.Nathan_Adams
- 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.
- GeorgesII0
Georges is currently sitting on the shitter
sent from iphone4
- pango0
"Facebook asks what I’m thinking. Twitter asks what I’m doing. Foursquare asks where I am. The internet has turned into a crazy girlfriend." - Tracy Morgan
- arne0
http://www.faraday-bags.com is blocked on facebook. no tinfoil hats.
- doesnotexist0
wouldn't turning off your location services solve this?
- detritus0
Hopefully, this is old news to you, if not, I encourage you to check out the processed mobile logs of a German Green MP who recently sued for all his details from his mobile company.
http://www.zeit.de/datenschutz/m…
(Neat interactive widget too, from a geek perspective if nothing else).
To those of you in the "If I've nothing to hide.." camp - wake up! Where in The Great Book Of Man is it writ that anyone or any entity has any hint of right of omniscience over us?
It's got sod all to do with righteousness, merely simple philosophy.
You're a monkey, not an ant.
- .. fuckit, even ants can go off an do their own thing, unseen. I know — i saw it in a movie.detritus
- Or was that a bee?detritus
- if you're foolish enough to believe in god, you deserve whatever other wool can be pulled over your eyeslogi
- That sounds like an argument for a wholly different thread.detritus
- arne0
it seems to be related to apple's mobile ads.
opt-out here http://oo.apple.com and it won't track anymore.
- Boz0
Boom!.. Google pitches in
- jtb260
Ok, so my question is...
Who here is bent up enough over this to switch their iPhone off?
- ernexbcn0
I read it's the cellular antenna data, something the phone company already have of all of us, iPhone or not. And the data is in your computer according to the authors of the app, so what's the big deal?
Would be outrageous if Apple was actually using it or selling it.
- it would be outrageous because it was Apple, cause I'm pretty sure everybody else has something similar...ESKEMA
- it's a big deal silly little fanboy is because you are not asked whether or not they can track you.. And no.. cell towers don't keep on file everywhere you went.Boz
- keep on file everywhere you went.Boz
- A judge can order your phone company to provide tower data to track you down, imbecileernexbcn
- Imbecile is to Boz, since he loves calling people fanboy.ernexbcn
- A JUDGE STUPID IDIOT not everyone.Boz