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  1. 04-21-2011, 18:31 #1
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    Default Apple is Tracking You...

    This is interesting, particularly because I don't own an Apple. Here is a link:

    http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news...ture?gt1=43001

    Are you worried?

    Toward the end of the article it is noted that apple owners don't seem too alarmed, but that if it had been Google and their Droid people would be going crazy.

    Small invasion of privacy? I think so.
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    Funny thing is .. it's NOTHING new... the phones have been doing that for a few software revisions now ... just now it is placed in a way that other software on your phone can access it .

    Only a problem if 1 I lost my phone, or someone hacked my comp/phone..


    There is so much info out there anyways... and I'm not hard to track as it is LOL one problem with being 6'3" 300lbs... I'm easy to spot...
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    And all your tv's have little recievers so "they" can hear you talking bout the gov.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mtn.man View Post
    And all your tv's have little recievers so "they" can hear you talking bout the gov.
    I gots an old TV that has "the guy" in the back listening.
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    Any phone that you can use like a GPS is tracking you ... that's kind of the point.

    Lots of apps on the iPhone need to be aware of your location (Foursquare for example).

    Actually if your iPhone WASN'T tracking you it wouldn't work.

    Also, dirty little secret is that ALL cell phones track you to a certain degree (they have to communicate with the towers or they wouldn't function)
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    I don't think I have to worry much about that since I don't have service half the time.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TriggerHappy View Post
    I don't think I have to worry much about that since I don't have service half the time.
    its so true it shouldn't be that funny
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    Do not own any apple products, nor will anytime soon.
    I was a huge Apple supporter since 1995-2004.
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    Default you're missing one detail

    it wouldn't be new if it just knew your CURRENT location...

    But what they've found is that the iPhone LOGs the data of where you are, until it's where you've BEEN... it's stored in a file on the phone.

    The Michigan police would love this- they've got a log file they can read on your phone that tells them where you've been recently...

    I haven't heard how long it tracks this data for, since I don't own an iPhone, and don't plan to I haven't bothered to research it very far.

    I WAS an Apple supporter back in 1981, until about 1988... I even did desktop support on them around 1994, but didn't buy any of their products..
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    Is there a way for us to look at our tracking? Or who is keeping these tracking records?
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