Why are people so surprised about Apple tracking the iPhone? How did you think Find my iPhone worked?
because it should only work when requested or at the very least tell you its always on.
Why are people so surprised about Apple tracking the iPhone? How did you think Find my iPhone worked?
Do most people really care, I know I don't. So Apple either knows where I have been or if the phone is stolen, the person can findo out where I have been, WOW HOW EXCITING FOR THEM
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Yup, thats pretty much it, feel free to follow me around![]()
I like how people refer to "Mr Jobs." Because you know, Steve, personally is pouring over the GPS logs of 108 milllion+ iPhone users. he's THAT obsessed about you, and you're THAT important to him.![]()
RIM, like Apple, Google, Palm, and Microsoft all have a paragraph (or two) about location services in the Terms of Service you had to agree to before you were allowed to use the device.I would love to hear RIM describe to me WHY they have been recording this same information!
In addition to other personal information described in this Agreement, when You use Your Handheld Product or enable data services or location-based functionality, Handheld Product location information (including, without limitation, GPS information, carrier ID, tower ID and signal strength of visible WiFi or cell towers) may be communicated to RIM Group of Companies. RIM Group of Companies may use such information to provide You with location based services, including, without limitation, services facilitating the sharing of Your Handheld Product location information with other persons, including without limitation, Third Party Services used with Your BlackBerry Solution. You should give due consideration before agreeing to have Your personal information disclosed to other persons. We may also use such information to create data in which Your personal information has been aggregated or made anonymous, and may use it to provide location-sensitive advertising.
because it should only work when requested or at the very least tell you its always on.
It would be complicated to make it work only when requested. And does it bother you that much? Let's say someone gets this file of everywhere you've been. What are they doing to do with it? Not much. At least if you're no one important. If you think this is bad... You need to learn about other things that are potentially more 'scary'.
One being the actual data stored on your device. If you delete a picture or a SMS, by no means is it actually gone from your phone. Even if you restore your phone back to factory settings, all your map locations, pictures you have taken, Text messages, and browsing history are stored on the device. I think the only thing that actually gets removed are your emails. Correct me if I'm wrong but those get removed from the device.
Now with that being said, an average person could not obtain those deleted files. Law enforcement/the government can. It's pretty scary... The things they can do that people don't know about.
You bring up an interesting point. Is this information wiped when you wipe your phone to sell it?
Well now a US Congressman is demanding Apple explain! LOL! I can see why tey would be worried!![]()
.... It's not to track you. They can't track you, they can steal your device and see where you've been going to, etc. but it's not like they have a database collecting your movements to then do a conspiracy against all you important people.![]()
I just ran the app and it's telling me that I've (or my phone has) been to islands here in the the UK that I definitely never have been nor been near to. The data seems slightly inaccurate.
Like I said before, only law enforcement/the government would be able to break into that stored data..
I just ran the app and it's telling me that I've (or my phone has) been to islands here in the the UK that I definitely never have been nor been near to. The data seems slightly inaccurate.
Sorry but if our "law enforcement/the government" is not good about keeping a secret. If they have the ability, anyone who wanted it bad enough would, too.
I keep trying to run the iPhoneTracker app but it just says could not load the consolidated file?
Surely turning off location services would stop this from happening?
Im presuming if location services are ON then the user of the phone is giving consent for the phone to log locations.....
PS, whats the program people are using to bring up these locations?
I am quite sure good uncle Steve would never do such an ugly thing as tracking people. Like checking where your phone is right now. NEVER!
Tom B.
Apple is claiming it's a bug and was only meant to store the data as temporary files.
A bug like Google's recording all that wifi traffic was a bug?
You need to step out of the box and watch all news. If you are just looking at what ABC, NBC and CBS is telling you then you do not know the whole story. Try looking at all of it and then filtering out the facts. None of them are perfect but filtering out Fox just because it is Fox will leave you without the tools to think for yourself!![]()