On 2011-06-03 09:32 , William Robb wrote:
On 03/06/2011 8:37 AM, Mat Maessen wrote:
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 10:35 AM, William Robb
Apparently, if you have an iPhone, it it almost constantly recording
it's
whereabouts (and generally it's owner's whereabouts) on an almost
continuous
basis.
Every smartphone that has a GPS in it does this. It's how the
applications on the phone know where you are.
It's the recording it to a database that I find unsavoury.
it doesn't store the location of the phone, it caches the locations of
cell towers and wifi signals; these are the data that make geolocation
so much faster than with GPS alone
for some reason iPhone stored a year's worth of data, and if you didn't
encrypt your backups, you could extract it from your own backups (along
with your all your other info)
as i understand it, Android does something similar
My understanding is that it also sends this information back to Apple
periodically.
Incorrect.
[CNET:] "[...] The data is also sent
to Apple."
They may have "fixed" it now that they've been caught.
actual location data were never sent to Apple; the cell tower/wifi
hotspot data has always been anonymized, and is still sent to Apple --
that's how the info is updated for everyone's benefit; what Apple
"fixed" is that the data are not kept as long, are deleted when location
services are turned off, and are encrypted even if you don't encrypt
your own backups
<http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/04/27location_qa.html>
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