from our friends in australia:
Security researchers have discovered that Apple’s iPhone keeps track of where you go – and saves every detail to a secret file on the device which is copied to the owner’s computer when synchronised…
…However, Apple can legitimately claim that it has permission to collect the data. Near the end of the 15,200-word terms and conditions for its iTunes program is an 86-word paragraph that says: “Apple and our partners and licensees may collect, use, and share precise location data, including the real-time geographic location of your Apple computer or device. This location data is collected anonymously in a form that does not personally identify you and is used … to improve location-based products and services.
I’m leery of much of the new tech. Iphone, Ipad, Ipod, etc… I don’t own any of ‘em. I have a Dphone, as in dumb. It doesn’t know where I am and much of the time I don’t know where it is.
@ huckfunn:
Me too. Thank God I’m technoresistant. I don’t need or want gadgets.
I may want to get a new computer real soon (iMac or…if I’m really adventurous, the new Commie 64 which runs ubuntu Linux), and that’s about it.
Michigan: Police Search Cell Phones During Traffic Stops
Who needs the Fourth Amendment anyways…
Wouldn’t going into settings on your iPhone and turning off the “location” option disable this?
As I’ve said before, we are being conned into buying 1984 with our own money.
The Osprey wrote:
Whether or not this “feature” can be disable is the current center of this debate. This log file is of no benefit to the owner of the iphone and Folks want to know why Apple put it there…
[...] in a worrisome article on Blogmocracy about a significant threat to our electronic privacy, namely Apple iPhone secretly records owners’ every move. It followed another article, Exiting Detroit, about the endless and evidently reversible decline [...]
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
I’ve taken your link and resubmitted it as a thread, with credit to you. Thanks!