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but could care less in practice. I mean, my life is average. Sometimes even boring. But the idea of being tracked crawls all over me. That is just wrong. It is also of little practical significance to me. But it IS wrong.
Kinda like discriminating against gays. Wrong, but it does not effect me directly.
So I am against both!
Trey
Imagine you have a creditor, or an ex spouse, or a flat nut interested in you...would you want that person to have detailed data on where you are at all times??
There is no legitimate reason for any company to sell you stuff and then extract data from it without your permission or knowledge except to provide a new revenue source for that company...
It is like buying a house and finding out the bedroom is wired for video and sound as the builder is also in the porn business.
Yes, The location services feature of these phones is a catch 22. If you leave it turned on you have essentially pinned a homing beacon to your ass. Most consumers don't RTFM that is provided with their new phone and just end up leaving all the settings on their Defaults. This Location services feature is enabled by default, at least on the iphone.
One other thing this feature does is tag any photo taken with the built in camera on these phones with GPS coordinates (long/lat). If the unsuspecting consumer then posts that picture on the web somewhere these GPS coordinates become public property. All someone needs to do then is come across your posted picture thru a google search, right click it and do a "save as" to their hard-drive. If they then look at the properties of the file they can see the associated GPS info along with date/time, camera type, picture resolution..etc. If your lucky, and your new friend really likes the picture enough they can stop by and tell you about it. The way they find out where you live is to open up google maps and input this GPS info taken from your posted picture and BAM, they are given a nice overhead view of your house and sometimes even the exact address.
Google and Apple like to watch the unsuspecting sheep via their cool toys
My phone is a Droid II global. It came loaded with a few score apps I had no use for or desire to use. They cannot be removed...Imagine your PC loaded with crap programs you cannot remove. How long would that last. Now, some of those apps themselves send data to third parties if (I hope) they are activated.
This industry practice of selling a product with built in involuntary or secret revenue streams to third parties needs to be ended. Would folk put up with having their car usable as a taxi b the dealer after sale or a PC that turned on its camera for the use of a third party after sale and without permission...what makes the phone different?
Put another way, Apple is stealing...they are taking information of value from product of other parties without their permission or knowledge and may very well be reselling the data to 3rd parties.
That is unsat and should be illegal
Read more: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/137432/20110423/apple-we-must-have-comprehensive-user-location-data-on-you.htm#ixzz1KUapeAaC
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704547604576263261679848814.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read
I like this bit
What a perfect time to parallel this with the release of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged movie release.
scary.
"Two Apple customers have filed a lawsuit accusing the Cupertino, California, company of committing violations of computer-fraud laws by recording location data of iPhone and iPad customers."
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/04/iphone-customers-lawsuit-data/
for spelling it out to me in terms I could understand. While I do not care that my cell phone monitors me, I sure do not want the cast of characters you mentioned monitoring me!
Point made and accepted.
Trey
Smartphone data anxieties rise
By Joseph Menn in San Francisco
Published: May 2 2011 20:37 | Last updated: May 2 2011 20:37
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e0a293d6-74ed-11e0-a4b7-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1LIWOy570