On the contrary,
there are programs written to remove this feature, because of course it is
none of apple's business where someone goes.
Let's say they are using that data to create those forced ads we read about
a few months ago, the ones attached t o programs that will require you to
respond before you can use the program?
and since the file is unprotected, anyone gets their hands on your
activity, lets say if our phone is lost or stolen?
I do not think profits are the worry here at all.
its privacy pure and sample.
Granted safari tracks too, so .
Karen
On Fri, 22 Apr 2011, carolyn Haas wrote:
Oh, great! So, just don't go where you don't belong, and what's the big scare
here? Maybe I'm overly Apple loyal. But, really, do we all have so many
secret places we go? What about onstar? That lovely service that can respond
in minutes to your emergency with the push of a button. Quite honestly, I
don't think a single soul would benefit from knowing where i've been or where
I'm going.
I get the feeling someone's looking at Apple's profits and wanting a piece of
the Apple pie.
On Apr 22, 2011, at 1:49 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
We talked about the pop up ad possibility a while back, now it seems apple is
gathering data on your whereabouts?
here is the story.
TVBizwire
Researchers Say Apple Is Tracking Locations of Mobile Device
Users betanews
A team of researchers says Apple is secretly obtaining the
locations of iOS4 users and recording them in a hidden file,
according to a betanews.com report.
Two of the researchers, Alasdair Allan and Peter Warden of
O'Reilly Media, presented their findings today at the Where 2.0
conference in Santa Clara, Calif.
According to the story, the revelation raises "obvious privacy
concerns and questions as to why Apple would be storing such
information. The researchers believe it is intentional, as the
file is restored after backups and even when the user switches to
a new device."
The group says the functionality is apparently new to iOS4, the
mobile operating system that runs the latest iPad, iPhone and
iPod touch. The researchers have reportedly tried to contact
Apple's security team but had yet to hear back from the company.
The story reports: "Allan says that the existence of the file on
on your computer is a security risk, as it is both unprotected
and un encrypted. `It can also be easily accessed on the device
itself if it falls into the wrong hands,' he wrote in a blog
post. `Anybody with access to this file knows where you've been
over the last year, since iOS4 was released.'"
http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/tvbizwire/2011/04/researchers-say-apple-is-track.php
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