The iPhone Has Been Tracking Where You Go

[0shadow]

well the thing is why exactly would you want strangers to know your position anytime.. what if someone hacks the apple server one day and get all your information?.. how'd you feel if someone's following your girlfriend or kid the whole time.. even if they dont do nothing?

 

[reggieray]

Mr Jobs is pals with the Obozo regime and they are doing it for the FEDS. Fraulein Janet Napolitano and her army of Gestapo goons, Zeich Heil, has to watch their enemy, the American people, Seig Heil. No more Apple products for me Ubuntu will be my next laptop, I may even look into replacing OS X on my Macbook Pro with Ubuntu.

 

[hoofhearted]

What if some group comes up with an automated way to get this info off the phone? What if some group hacks Apple and steals a good portion of this database? I doubt they would target an individual, but they may resell this data and it would make its way to illicit servers where any criminal can obtain these lists. But today's criminals are stupid. They just mug old ladies and stuff like that. Not smart enough to use a computer. I am sure companies that house email addresses and passwords for other companies like Chase and Amazon are impervious to this sort of activity as well.

 

[Deadstick50]

Listen kid, I been all over this galaxy,... and there aint no all powerful I-Whatever controls my destiny!!
Just to clarify, don't own an I of any type.....and never F'ning will!

 

[Camikazi]

[citation][nom]blubbey[/nom]Being tracked without permission? Against the law isn't it? They've tracked probably millions of people...... By my calculations, we could take Apple for everything they're worth and more.[/citation]
Unless of course they put it in the agreement that by accepting to use the phone and its software you also agree to being tracked...

 

[hoofhearted]

Just because they put it in a contract or EULA does not make it legal or above the law. If that were true then you could get people to work for less than minimum wage.

 

[K2N hater]

CURRENTLY you either give up essential freedoms and privacy or live with absolutely no technology. As long as the understanding of the Law preaches you can live without technology businessmen will abuse us due to our needs of these devices.

You're tracked, recorded and watched by invisible eyes about everywhere you go. That's not restricted to Apple and didn't begin with Apple but they're taking a step further, indeed.

 

[Vladislaus]

[citation][nom]mcnaugha[/nom]@quantumrand iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 encrypt all data on the device using strong AES. So it's not so much a plain text file that some bad guy can swipe.Apple offers a remote wipe feature for free to iPhone 4 and iPad users. iPhone 3GS users can get this functionality if they subscribe to Apple's MobileMe. If you're silly enough to lose your iPhone or it gets stolen then you just activate the remote wipe as fast as you can.The tracking is mostly useful for finding your iPhone if it gets lost/stolen. This could prove helpful to the Police.[/citation]
Actually this file is not encrypted.

 

[back_by_demand]

[citation][nom]rantoc[/nom]Considering that the Eula is accepted when the hardware is purchased/used the user sells away that part of their freedom voluntarily, and then considering how much effort Apple have put into protecting the gathered data and that it's even copied to the computer on synchronization tells me all i need to know how much Apple care about their customers privacy...[/citation]
You show me where in the EULA that Apple constantly tracks your whereabouts in a secret file that secretly sync to your home machine.

Then prove to me that the home machine doesn't have a facility in iTunes that secretly uploads it to Apple for the purpose of... who knows what?

 

[NuclearShadow]

[citation][nom]jamesedgeuk2000[/nom]How is this a bad thing? the only people who shouldn't want to keep a personal record of their movements are criminals...[/citation]

Oh, really? So you think the only people who don't wish to be spied on and have privacy are criminals? Then good sir I challenge you. For every moment of your life I want you to tell me exactly where you plan to go, where you go, and what you do. To the exact detail. If you go over a girlfriends house, I want to know when, where, why, as well as the events that take place.

Does this sound reasonable to you? If not then you must be a criminal right? So from tomorrow and from then on I am expecting you to give me a full daily report of everything you do. You may email me such on here. After all your not a criminal right?

 

[themarin8r]

[citation][nom]ReggieRay[/nom]Mr Jobs is pals with the Obozo regime and they are doing it for the FEDS. Fraulein Janet Napolitano and her army of Gestapo goons, Zeich Heil, has to watch their enemy, the American people, Seig Heil. No more Apple products for me Ubuntu will be my next laptop, I may even look into replacing OS X on my Macbook Pro with Ubuntu.[/citation]
This is possibly the most ridiculous thing I have ever read here. Ever

 

[rantoc]

[citation][nom]back_by_demand[/nom]You show me where in the EULA that Apple constantly tracks your whereabouts in a secret file that secretly sync to your home machine.Then prove to me that the home machine doesn't have a facility in iTunes that secretly uploads it to Apple for the purpose of... who knows what?[/citation]

Read the entire article, the portion of the eula is actually there where the user allow apple and their friends to collect and use that data, its shocking that they even won't bother to encrypt it properly and that it even synchronizes it to the computer, to what end.. we won't likely ever know that answer. The only answer i see is apple don't care for shit about your privacy, thats what all this tells me!

 

[irtehyar]

Meh. Apple is already telling me what I need and don't need (flash?), and what I like. They might as well know where I'm doing it. That way they can make products that only work in specific locations, because it's better there.

 

[Marco925]

Good thing i didn't upgrade to OS4

 

[nicklasd87]

[citation][nom]jamesedgeuk2000[/nom]How is this a bad thing? the only people who shouldn't want to keep a personal record of their movements are criminals...[/citation]

Please don't feed the troll

 

[kentlowt]

I could see several commercial uses for this feature. Routing of drivers and tracking of deliverys comes to mind as well as analyzing route efficiencies could benifit from this data. I don't think collecting the data is as bad as the issue of it being stored in a simple backup file on a computer certainly there should be more security involved with this data as well as warnings and the ability to turn it off.

 

[Apple Troll Master]

1 more hate mark for Apple.

 

[back_by_demand]

[citation][nom]rantoc[/nom]Read the entire article, the portion of the eula is actually there where the user allow apple and their friends to collect and use that data, its shocking that they even won't bother to encrypt it properly and that it even synchronizes it to the computer, to what end.. we won't likely ever know that answer. The only answer i see is apple don't care for shit about your privacy, thats what all this tells me![/citation]
Credit card companies were taken to the cleaners in federal fraud cases for the complexity of their agreements, resulting in newer agreement written in "plain English".
I can guarantee you that no-one who took the time to read the EULA could have discerned that Apples intention was to real-time track the whereabouts of the user, tantamount to deliberate obfuscation.

Burying this in an EULA in legalese language I can read a couple of things, by the way this a straight copy/paste from the EULA:-

(b) Location Data. Apple and its partners and licensees may provide certain services through your iPhone that rely upon location information. To provide and improve these services, where
available, Apple and its partners and licensees may transmit, collect, maintain, process and use your location data, including the real-time geographic location of your iPhone, and location search
queries. The location data and queries collected by Apple are collected in a form that does not personally identify you and may be used by Apple and its partners and licensees to provide and
improve location-based products and services. By using any location-based services on your iPhone, you agree and consent to Apple's and its partners' and licensees' transmission,
collection, maintenance, processing and use of your location data and queries to provide and improve such products and services. You may withdraw this consent at any time by going
to the Location Services setting on your iPhone and either turning off the global Location Services setting or turning off the individual location settings of each location-aware application on your
iPhone. Not using these location features will not impact the non location-based functionality of your iPhone. When using third party applications or services on the iPhone that use or provide
location data, you are subject to and should review such third party's terms and privacy policy on use of location data by such third party applications or services.

Sounds easy enough right? But when presented with a 204 page document with nearly 300,000 words with minor detail updates from the previous version which didn't exist before, what the hell are people expect to do?

Incidentally, that's a bigger word count than the first 3 Harry Potter books combined.

 

[Guest]

purpose: to know where their customers are for marketing purposes. it seems to be an efficient addition to the way they upsell, i mean advertise.

 

[Guest]

This was pretty obvious since in the keynote for the iPad2 they stated that if you take a picture or video in xCity, that city will be added to the meta-data automatically.