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04-22-2011, 01:16 PM | #17 |
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If it was that important, you might want to pull the battery out also. Oh ... wait an minute ... you CAN'T pull the battery out of an iPhone!
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04-22-2011, 02:09 PM | #18 |
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That's what I was thinking, a lot of times they ask for your location and then you think "well why would I need to do that?" I never accept that they can locate me... although with an iPod, I still wouldn't be surprised if they still can track you regardless if you allow the location thing or not.
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04-22-2011, 02:32 PM | #19 |
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How is this even news I have an I pod touch and some apps ask me if I would allow them to know my location. I just assumed that if I'm saying yes these apps know where I am at any given time.
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04-22-2011, 03:09 PM | #20 |
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It's not news, it's sensationalism. Haven’t you noticed that there is nothing else noteworthy in the headlines lately?
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04-22-2011, 03:34 PM | #21 |
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Anyone tracking my iPad will be convinced I never leave my living room sofa.
Actually, I thought it was interesting hearing this a few days ago... then, today, hearing a new news item on the radio describing how the GPS feature on the iPhone allows you to find it if you've lost it. And you thought it was a bad thing! Yeah, why talk about things like... oh, I dunno... Earth Day upcoming, a year after the BP oil spill? |
04-22-2011, 05:50 PM | #22 |
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Yup. Cell phone tracking helped expose the Duke false rape accusations in 2006.
While you are not supposed to have to prove your innocence rather than the other way around in the US, some of the falsely accused were able to show they had left the party before the stoned striper returned and started raising hell. So, if you are not up to something you shouldn't be the tracking can be helpful. |
04-23-2011, 09:49 AM | #23 |
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How about if you're in an accident and no one knows where you are? I'd be glad of it then.
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04-23-2011, 09:56 AM | #24 |
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How about you are going for medical tests and it is nobody's business but yours.
At the moment it sounds like this file is not available "off the phone" but could that change? Obviously, there can be good uses for such data but there could be bad ones, too. It should be the owner's choice - not Apple's nor maybe the government's nor your employer. |
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04-25-2011, 03:13 AM | #26 |
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Exactly. There's absolutely nothing new in this. Cell towers constantly keep track of your device in order for it to communicate with the system. But it was my understanding that usually it was the tel-com company who dealt with the data and they weren't stored locally. But with the growth of location-aware (and context-aware) technology it makes sense to use the data for apps on the device as well.
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04-25-2011, 09:07 AM | #27 |
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For me the news here is how careless Apple is being with private data and that they are logging the data when they have no valid reason to do so. They can provide location awareness without logging the data.
It's obvious that Apple has the location awareness service and I like that you can enable and disable it by application but it's not acceptable that they would log a years worth of the unprotected location data and replicate it to any computer you sync with. I find it disturbing that someone with two minutes of access to my niece's computer could lift a file that shows where and when she's been for the last year. I'm surprised that people just accept this when there's no valid reason for a company to be so negligent with personal data. |
04-25-2011, 10:06 AM | #28 |
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Yawn... every time you use an Oyster card on the tube, every time you use a credit card, every time you use a debit card, every time you use a mobile phone, etc etc, you put your location on record never mind the traffic cameras, general CCTV nearly every where... lost battle. If you don't like your Apple/Android phone keeping tabs on you then turn it off... you'll lose a chunk of functionality from anything requiring location data but you'll be far less visible as long as you only ever use cash and probably make all your journeys underground via sewage tunnels...
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The BBC news item makes the point that the data is stored in the device. Presumably, only Apple does this, hence all the fuss.
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Nope. Google does it, but does it differently.
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