On 2011-06-03 10:49 , John Francis wrote:
On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 10:37:24AM -0400, Mat Maessen wrote:
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 10:35 AM, William Robb
<anotherdrunken...@gmail.com> wrote:
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.
My understanding is that it also sends this information back to Apple
periodically.
Incorrect.
-Mat
No - he's correct.
William's statement was incorrect because it doesn't send the phone's
location per se, it sends crowd-sourced, anonymized data to continuously
update the hotspot/tower info, my which the reliability of the location
system is maintained
Didn't you see the big uproar about this?
yes quite a tempest ...
Apple turned this on as part of a software update. As a result of the details
becoming public, they added a way for a user to turn off the location gathering,
one could always turn off location gathering; the update now clears the
location cache when location services is turned off
they truncated the amount of information kept on the phone, they stopped
gathering the information when the phone was turned off,
no information is gathered when the phone is off -- off is really off
and they stopped
copying that file to your computer when you synced with your iTunes library.
its still synced, it's just now encrypted whether you choose to encrypt
your backups or not
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