Re: Your i-phone is Keeping Tabs on You
"Supposedly" it maintains that file only on the phone and your computer and doesn't transmit it anywhere else...
Opps guess it does..
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424...sNewsCollection
" <span style="color: #FF0000">Apple Inc.'s iPhones and Google Inc.'s Android smartphones regularly transmit their locations back to Apple and Google, respectively, according to data and documents analyzed by The Wall Street Journal—intensifying concerns over privacy and the widening trade in personal data.</span>
Google and Apple are gathering location information as part of their 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, according to research firm Gartner Inc.
In the case of Google, according to new research by security analyst Samy Kamkar, an HTC Android phone collected its location every few seconds and transmitted the data to Google at least several times an hour. It also transmitted the name, location and signal strength of any nearby Wi-Fi networks, as well as a unique phone identifier.
Google declined to comment on the findings.
Until last year, Google was collecting similar Wi-Fi data with its fleet of StreetView cars that map and photograph streets world-wide. The company shut down its StreetView Wi-Fi collection last year after it inadvertently collected e-mail addresses, passwords and other personal information from Wi-Fi networks. The data that Mr. Kamkar observed being transmitted on Android phones didn't include such personal information.
Apple, meanwhile, says it "intermittently" collects location data, including GPS coordinates, of many iPhone users and nearby Wi-Fi networks and transmits that data to itself every 12 hours, according to a letter the company sent to U.S. Reps. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and Joe Barton (R-Texas) last year. Apple didn't respond to requests for comment.
The Google and Apple developments follow the Journal's findings last year that some of the most popular smartphone apps use location data and other personal information even more aggressively than this—in some cases sharing it with third-party companies without the user's consent or knowledge."
"Supposedly" it maintains that file only on the phone and your computer and doesn't transmit it anywhere else...
Opps guess it does..
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424...sNewsCollection
" <span style="color: #FF0000">Apple Inc.'s iPhones and Google Inc.'s Android smartphones regularly transmit their locations back to Apple and Google, respectively, according to data and documents analyzed by The Wall Street Journal—intensifying concerns over privacy and the widening trade in personal data.</span>
Google and Apple are gathering location information as part of their 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, according to research firm Gartner Inc.
In the case of Google, according to new research by security analyst Samy Kamkar, an HTC Android phone collected its location every few seconds and transmitted the data to Google at least several times an hour. It also transmitted the name, location and signal strength of any nearby Wi-Fi networks, as well as a unique phone identifier.
Google declined to comment on the findings.
Until last year, Google was collecting similar Wi-Fi data with its fleet of StreetView cars that map and photograph streets world-wide. The company shut down its StreetView Wi-Fi collection last year after it inadvertently collected e-mail addresses, passwords and other personal information from Wi-Fi networks. The data that Mr. Kamkar observed being transmitted on Android phones didn't include such personal information.
Apple, meanwhile, says it "intermittently" collects location data, including GPS coordinates, of many iPhone users and nearby Wi-Fi networks and transmits that data to itself every 12 hours, according to a letter the company sent to U.S. Reps. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and Joe Barton (R-Texas) last year. Apple didn't respond to requests for comment.
The Google and Apple developments follow the Journal's findings last year that some of the most popular smartphone apps use location data and other personal information even more aggressively than this—in some cases sharing it with third-party companies without the user's consent or knowledge."
Re: Your i-phone is Keeping Tabs on You
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Magstang1</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Everything is keeping tabs on you. If you go out in public you have about a 92% chance you are on camera some where.
Credit cards, debit cards...</div></div>
That is correct. There is no longer such a thing as anonymity.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Magstang1</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Everything is keeping tabs on you. If you go out in public you have about a 92% chance you are on camera some where.
Credit cards, debit cards...</div></div>
That is correct. There is no longer such a thing as anonymity.
Re: Your i-phone is Keeping Tabs on You
Well, if your gonna do something bad, leave your phone at home. LOL, I know if I ever have to dissappear for any reason the first thing I'm gonna do is remove the battery and hide that damn phone somewhere I'm not.
Well, if your gonna do something bad, leave your phone at home. LOL, I know if I ever have to dissappear for any reason the first thing I'm gonna do is remove the battery and hide that damn phone somewhere I'm not.
Re: Your i-phone is Keeping Tabs on You
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Magstang1</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I'm surprised there hasn't been more resistance to the onstar system in gm vehicles.
They flat out tell you, we can remotely control your vehicle.
HELLO?</div></div>
I've thought the very same thing for a long time. It's marketed as a "safety" feature....
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Magstang1</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I'm surprised there hasn't been more resistance to the onstar system in gm vehicles.
They flat out tell you, we can remotely control your vehicle.
HELLO?</div></div>
I've thought the very same thing for a long time. It's marketed as a "safety" feature....
Re: Your i-phone is Keeping Tabs on You
OnStar does not cooperate with LE, even when a car is jacked with a kid in the back.
OnStar does not cooperate with LE, even when a car is jacked with a kid in the back.
Re: Your i-phone is Keeping Tabs on You
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Socalsheepdog</div><div class="ubbcode-body">OnStar does not cooperate with LE, even when a car is jacked with a kid in the back. </div></div>
Sure, until someone passes a law that requires them to.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Socalsheepdog</div><div class="ubbcode-body">OnStar does not cooperate with LE, even when a car is jacked with a kid in the back. </div></div>
Sure, until someone passes a law that requires them to.
