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Apple, like any other tech company, views your concept of privacy as an annoying bother you should really just set aside. After all, they only have your best interests at heart! Like when they put together a map that tells anybody who knows where to look where you go, how often you go there, and how long you stay there! See, that’s not creepy at all!
Before you ask, yes, this is real, it’s been around since at least iOS 7 and Apple just adds to the skeeve factor here by making it hard to find. To dig it out, you have to select Privacy from Settings, choose Location Services, go all the way down to the bottom of that menu and choose System Services, and then scroll down to “Frequent Locations.” Click on one of your locations, and there’s the map. Click through to a location on that map, and you’ll get a list of days and times you were at that location.
It’s a detailed one, too; a few of our team put this to the test and not only found the map, but found it had date and time stamps that show exactly where they’d been and how long. The divorce jokes write themselves, but once again we have to point out to a tech company that this kind of data, even if it really is only stored on the device like Apple claims, can be enormously dangerous. It’s only “stored locally” until somebody figures out how to get it out of your phone.
You can, fortunately, disable Frequent Locations from the menu where you find the map; one Uproxxian found that it had been automatically disabled. But if you’ve got an iPhone and value your privacy, don’t take that for granted; go shut down this map.
(via Thrillist)
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This is how my phone tells me how long it’s going to take to get to work and then get home from work. I like that part of it. I guess if I was whoring around I’d have a problem. Maybe my life isn’t that exciting for me to get fired up about this.
Ask anybody with a nutball or even just kinda crappy ex; this isn’t really info you want stored where a jerk can get at it, whoring around or not.
As someone that is whoring around I feel comfortable saying this could be disastrous.
as soon as people figure out how to remotely access it they will find out your daily routine and just rob your place during the times you are normally away for extended periods of time
Android/Google does this too. It’s just a setting you turn off. I didn’t like that it was tracking my location. I realized that it had all the trips I’ve taken like going to the airport and could tell me when I did it. Just turn it off.
Tell you what Apple. Give me free unlimtied wifi for my phone and you can watch me in the bathroom for all I care
“When the fuck was I on East 7th Street? Oh, right…”
-Me, just now
Guess who’ll be snooping around in his wife’s iphone from now on?
Not super accurate for times, not super accurate for all days, etc etc. It’s missing a lot of places I’ve been, and it had me sleeping at Yoshinoya overnight instead of the 10 minutes I was there. Not too worried about it :-p
Nice cover, bro.
Apple has a contract with the government to have all iPhones and other Apple electronics embedded with secret programs that track you, where you go, who you talk too, what you say, and what websites you go on, as well as other personal and private information.
Just ANOTHER reason I will NEVER waste my money on ANY kind of cheap-assed, over priced garbage that Apple pumps out!!!
No, Apple does not have a contract with the government. Apple wants to collect this information for their own purposes. However, it IS perfectly legal for Apple to sell this information to anybody who wants it, including the government, without disclosing this to you, which is at best ethically suspect.
No biggie, Samsung has the same app…it’s called Location History. On my Spring Samsung S5 it’s found at “Network connections, Location.”
Of course that should have been “Sprint Samsung.”
iphones, Zamsings, Sprints, walmart,, who cares,, you can shut it off your mind a bit screwie about where ya been and who knows about it, shut the dam thing off end of story,,But if you want to benifit from it and don’t have en X or Y or even a Z piss on it leave it ON Goberment has ALL of us pegged so why blame the cell phone companies, Holy crapparoly,, Dirteing your pampers for nussin Gees Luis,,
Only a matter of time until this migrates from your phone to your Arm.