What do you mean secretly? This has been obvious for a while.
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how do you think your gps can tell you the shortest path to your destination?? it's by collecting data from other phone that has gone trough the same path that your heading, the iphone and ipad are not the only thing that do that I don't see the big deal with that, google is doing the same thing with other smart phone with triangulation at different cell phone towers, they can calculate the speed at which the phone was traveling, which can indicate if their is a street jam or if the traffic is fluide those data are transfered to other gps or used by google to tell you the fastest way to your destination. this is not a plot by skynet to dominate the world lawl
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twesterm said:
Are you sure it requires you? Unless you specifically tell it to log off, it stays logged in (same with twitter). I would be willing to be that if you dug around in most peoples email, text messages, tweets, and Facebook messages/posts you could find their address. If that didn't work, I'd still have control over your email address. I would go to websites like Hallmark.com, Amazon, VGChartz, or anything else that requires an email address to reset a password and reset your password. That password would be emailed to the email I have control of. If I got something like your Amazon, Hallmark, or any eCommerce account I have your address, but I actually don't care about that. If I have your email, that means I can probably log into your bank account. From there I can do whatever I want. So yeah, again, that location stuff isn't anything special. If I steal your phone I can figure that stuff out with zero effort and that's not even the scary part. Knowing where you live is no big deal (Hell, that's information you can look up in the phone book). The iPhone tracking your every location should be the least of your worries. Hopefully this post is a scary reminder to everyone to pass lock their iPhone. It's an inconvience to put in the pass code every time but there's a lot of stuff on that phone you don't want people to get. |
shhhhh quit telling people my secrets. I'm just kidding,but seriously you can find anybody if you wanted to bad enough,so even though I don't have the I phone,I have to agree with this post 0.
On Wednesday we learned that everyone's iPhone is http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2011/04/dangers-iphones-recording-your-every-move/36861/">secretly recording their every move in a file stored on the device. Last night, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703983704576277101723453610.html">The Wall Street Journal discovered that smartphone geolocation scandal is worse than previously reported: the data isn't just stored on your phone and computer, it's also being transmitted to Apple headquarters. Oh yeah, and it's not just Apple that does this, Google is also collecting your geolocation data on Android phones.
Why are Apple and Google stalking us? According to the Journal it's all part of a grand "race to build massive databases capable of pinpointing people's locations via their cellphones. These databases could help them tap the $2.9 billion market for location-based services—expected to rise to $8.3 billion in 2014." These are the types of services that help you find local businesses for your consumer needs. Your location data is also good for helping phone companies recognize weak coverage areas and, for Google's purposes, it helps the company find out how fast traffic is moving along specific stretches of highway.
Some are already speculating that the finding will spur on an investigation by Congress. Why is this a big deal? Well, for some people it isn't: they like having a record of all their whereabouts, like our Atlantic colleague http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/04/my-life-according-to-the-iphones-secret-tracking-log/237636/">Alexis Madrigal. But, as noted in our post http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2011/04/dangers-iphones-recording-your-every-move/36861/">Wednesday, there are a number of concerns. What if your phone gets stolen? What if your jealous spouse gets a hold of it? Police used to have to get a warrant for this information. Now it's readily available on your phone. Also, as http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/21/apple-tracking-location-database/">TechCrunch points out today, divorce lawyers are likely going to start subpoenaing smartphones quite regularly. Now we have to trust Apple and Google with this information too.
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twesterm said:
Are you sure it requires you? Unless you specifically tell it to log off, it stays logged in (same with twitter). I would be willing to be that if you dug around in most peoples email, text messages, tweets, and Facebook messages/posts you could find their address. If that didn't work, I'd still have control over your email address. I would go to websites like Hallmark.com, Amazon, VGChartz, or anything else that requires an email address to reset a password and reset your password. That password would be emailed to the email I have control of. If I got something like your Amazon, Hallmark, or any eCommerce account I have your address, but I actually don't care about that. If I have your email, that means I can probably log into your bank account. From there I can do whatever I want. So yeah, again, that location stuff isn't anything special. If I steal your phone I can figure that stuff out with zero effort and that's not even the scary part. Knowing where you live is no big deal (Hell, that's information you can look up in the phone book). The iPhone tracking your every location should be the least of your worries. Hopefully this post is a scary reminder to everyone to pass lock their iPhone. It's an inconvience to put in the pass code every time but there's a lot of stuff on that phone you don't want people to get. |
I think whats makes this bad is the fact its so easy for hackers to get the file and it is stored in multiple places. So they dont need to steal your phone to get the file, it may be found on your home computer-so if your computer gets hacked/virus or what ever they can look foir this file that is not encrypted.
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