Big Brother Apple is watching you

Posted by: Mike-B on 21 April 2011

Is this infringing public privacy, taking personal information 1 step too far or just data acquisition nerds out of control.

Apple are tracking iPhone users' locations and saving details to a secret file.
They save the lat & long, time stamp, then copy the data to the owner's computer whenever they are synchronised. iPad also records location data.

Seems its in the small print somewhere, so we all agreed to it.

Posted on: 21 April 2011 by Adam Meredith

It struck me that you could do away with speed cameras and just track the movements of mobile telephones against speed limits. Fines could be levied like Amazon purchases. In a Wonderful World.

From my experience, travellers by train seldom exceed any limit and so should not be wrongly ticketed.

There is, among the highly strung, a paranoia about embedded identity chips. How much smarter to use a voluntary device many would have to have surgically removed from their hand?

Posted on: 21 April 2011 by DavidDever

You typed this on an internet User Forum–therefore, you're already in "their" crosshairs, whoever "they" are.

I could see where this location data would be quite useful, especially if logged against AT&T's dropped calls in the United States.

Any notion of privacy, anyway, is proportional to relevance–it's easy to be a hermit if your influence upon society is minimal. Act and speak accordingly.