On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 10:33:23AM -0600, steve harley wrote: > 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
Sophistry. Apple might not store the location of the phone, but the phone did (together with a timestamp). It was trivially easy to show where the phone had been during the previous days or weeks; all the news reports I saw showed an application doing exactly that. That's what people object to - unwittingly carrying a spy in their pocket. I wouldn't necessarily want my employer to know that I'd been on the same street (or even in the same town) as the head office of a major competitor; other people probably don't want their wife (or their parents) to know which part of town they've been visiting. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
