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 Want to Be Spied On? Luckily, There’s an iPhone App for ThatPosted on Apr 21, 2011
Privacy-conscious iPhone and iPad users beware: Big Brother is watching. The Los Angeles Times reports that Apple’s mobile devices are secretly keeping track of where users have been by logging and storing a detailed record of their geographic location in a hidden system file. According to the two security researchers who discovered the file, the data are easily accessible and can be used to build an incredibly precise portrait of a user’s movements over time, stretching back months and even years. They’ve even made an application that does just that (Mac users only). —YL
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By Tim Kelly, April 22, 2011 at 12:24 pm Link to this comment
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LeeFeller - I’m not sure what you’re trying to say, but you may want to keep in mind that many of the recent pro-democracy rallies were coordinated through cell phone access to Twitter and Facebook, and a great deal of video from those demonstrations were recorded on cell phones.
So, yes, it is quite reasonable to expect that a pro-democracy demonstrator is going to carry their cell phone with them, although in the future it is unlikely to be an Apple product.
Report thisBy dgbjpn, April 22, 2011 at 10:18 am Link to this comment
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O’er the land of the free to speak in the predetermined free speech zone and the
Report thishome of the tracked, monitored, obese consumers. Seriously, all jokes aside, what
a joke! Who needs parody news when we have US reality. What’s the bet every
phone company, on behest of the greatest democracy the world has ever known,
has the same utility in their mobile products. Come on, how much?
By Leefeller, April 22, 2011 at 7:28 am Link to this comment
Yeah! The KKK is right behind you Tim Kelley, they don’t want no repressive society, where peacefully burning crosses may not be allowed, guess they just are not smart enough to leave the Ipad at home on cross burning nights?
I guess this is comparable to robbing a bank and dropping your wallet?
Now, I understand the concern, but from what I understand no one is forcing an I pad up everyones arse? Not yet anyway!
Report thisBy Tim Kelly, April 21, 2011 at 7:34 pm Link to this comment
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I would not want to have an iPhone if I lived in a repressive society that arrests people for peacefully demonstrating. No need to wait for the cell phone companies to give up the information - just let your iPhone tell the authorities where you have been (and maybe meeting with other potential demonstrators).
Good thing that doesn’t happen in the U.S.
Report thisBy Bacilo de Koch, April 21, 2011 at 5:37 pm Link to this comment
And, by the way… if you are that nervous about it then encrypt your iPhone
Report thisbackup. It is a simple check box on the options on iTunes when you sync your
device.
By Bacilo de Koch, April 21, 2011 at 5:25 pm Link to this comment
Not true.
The iPhone and 3G versions of the iPad keep a GPS location log as a file in the
device itself, and it syncs with the computer you connect it to.
This file is not transmitted to Apple or anybody else. How exactly does this
Report thistranslate into big brother watching? Way to make the idiots paranoid.