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Federal Lawmakers Questioning Steve Jobs Regarding Location Data Collection
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Better smash any smartphone you have then because it probably has GeoLocation enabled and has your Longitude and Latitude wherever you go.
While your at it. Stop using navigation software,Twitter etc.
I have to say I actually appreciate someone questioning this. The last thing I want is to start receiving push notifications or text messages when I drive past one of Apple's "partners and licensees" brick and mortar establishments. I'm not saying that's how the data will (or even can) be used, but the question is, is the verbiage open enough to allow that, and if so, should it be, whether that's the intention or not?
Another one of them mindless Apple drones, Steve did a great job, I must hand him that.
But it IS being shared with their consent. The quoted paragraph from Apple's privacy policy- ignore what the article says, because it's full of hyperbole-is referring to sharing your location with third parties when you grant them permission through the Location Sharing dialog box so that their applications can do what you want them to.
Or turn it off (and remove battery) when you don't want to be available. If you're the incorrigible "but I'm so important that I must always be available!" invention of the '90s, get a pager and/or over yourself.
But is it recorded? And to whom is data sent?
As above. Although "stop using closed source navigation software" isn't necessarily bad advice.
This goes without saying...
what bout google and RIM
Given that you can opt out of the Apple iAd program, and that it's sole purpose it to provide contextual, location based ads, only the advertising experience is degraded if you opt-out of location sharing, not the application or hardware experience.
Now with Android, on the other hand, Google's whole revenue stream is dependent on advertising and location sharing has no opt-out. 1 in 5 apps on Android send private user data beyond location sharing back to the server.
With Blackberry, the BES routes all user information and location through a single NOC and no one is complaining.
It is most likely the opt-out and the warning that location data is being shared on the iPhone that has the govs hackles up... if Apple just secretly collected the data like google and rim, no one would be making a fuss.
Given that you can opt out of the Apple iAd program, and that it's sole purpose it to provide contextual, location based ads, only the advertising experience is degraded if you opt-out of location sharing, not the application or hardware experience.
Now with Android, on the other hand, Google's whole revenue stream is dependent on advertising and location sharing has no opt-out. 1 in 5 apps on Android send private user data beyond location sharing back to the server.
With Blackberry, the BES routes all user information and location through a single NOC and no one is complaining.
It is most likely the opt-out and the warning that location data is being shared on the iPhone that has the govs hackles up... if Apple just secretly collected the data like google and rim, no one would be making a fuss.
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Go download this movie a member posted about how cool the HD video is on the new iPhone 4.
Open it in Quicktime and look at the inspector. You will notice a little arrow. Click on that arrow and you will see the front door of the person that posted the video.
You can thank Google Maps for that btw.
Go download this movie a member posted about how cool the HD video is on the new iPhone 4.
Open it in Quicktime and look at the inspector. You will notice a little arrow. Click on that arrow and you will see the front door of the person that posted the video.
You can thank Google Maps for that btw.
Not exactly. I was hoping you could 'extrapolate' my example to see how Apple could be dragged into terribly misusing private information.
Remember J. Edgar Hoover? He ran the FBI and wow, did he run it with great evil intent! Picture a future 'Hoover' having several FBI agents showing up at Apple and asking (demanding) cooperation in a highly classified operation to identify and track enemies of the United States with Apple's corporate data. Bingo! Off we go on hell's highway of privacy invasion and yet another 'secret list' being made.
I've probably been around a lot longer than you and I'm not saying I'm smarter. I'm just pointing out from my observation and sad experience what can happen when a data bank of personal information on citizens starts being maintained and is subsequently misused, hacked or stolen for other than original purposes.
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I may be in the minority, but I don't have or use any smartphones. I have a piece of crap cheap phone that I only use occasionally, and it only does one thing, make calls, and it works fine for that purpose. It probably makes better calls than the iphone, since I'm not on AT&T.
I also don't use any navigation software and I definitely don't twitter.
Using your device information to opt out of a service that uses your device information. Is that ironic?
(I realize that it's the only logical way to do it...)
Godwin's Law. First person to invoke a comparison to Hitler in an argument loses.
Good day sir.