For those of you who are not aware, apparently the iPhone and iPad have been tracking and storing their locations for the lowest 10 months. As far as I understand, geographic information has been tracked on cell phones for sometime for billing purposes, etc.
but just now has that information been stored on the physical devices. Oh, also, this was done without the knowledge of any of the users.
Some people appear to be freaking out about this, and I can all understand why. The primary reason seems to be that they don't require this information falling into the wrong hands. Scenario: your call is stolen. Your phone thief is besides a hacker, and he extracts the geographic information from your phone, which he then studies and researches in place to feel out where you live, at which place he goes to your home and robs it. Really? Does that sound like the easiest way to go into a sign? How about, drive around a region until you see a site that looks empty. And, where else might someone get your call from? What if they buy your wallet and get the data on your driver`s license? What if you place a letter and someone finds it with your return address, or what if someone looks at a phonebook or the Internet? I'm surprised that no one is robbing my house right now.
Yes, it does give potential miscreants yet another way to get more data about you than you would wish to give. But, with technology always comes new methods to work that technology for evil. Ah, but isn't technology supposed to assist us? If there's a low side, then shouldn't there be an up side too?
The geographic information is exploited by Apple and the telephone companies in place to amend the choice of help on our devices such as reception, tower placement, as good as marketing. The first two are obvious, but how does improved marketing help us? It increases the liquidity of the transport of goods and services, helping the economy, and serving you get better approach to that which you would really wish to purchase. People get confused about all this targeted marketing because it clearly shows that they live more about you than you might like, but isn't it decent to get an ad for your favorite sandwich shop instead of some death metal t-shirt or Rogaine?
I digress.
I mean it's good to say that the criminal using your call to get to your family and learn your material is sort of a ridiculous one. What is everyone really afraid of?
The government. We're afraid that the administration will go Big Brother on us and start tracking our movements and fetching off our freedoms. That's one possibility. The former one is that we're afraid that someday we just might have to pull a crime for any reason, and when we do, we don't need to get caught. Okay, I can see where you're coming from with that. Let me talk about the moment one first. Don't commit crimes. That's one way to invalidate that problem. If you do send a crime, leave your cell phone at home, or release it off, or destroy it. But, how about simply don't send a crime?
Okay, Big Brother. Here's what I mean most that. Yes, there's a potential for step in that area, but if it came to that, and our every movement was being monitored by the authorities in a manner that profaned the 4th amendment, then eventually people would get out and the administration would have quit and desist. What if they don't? Well, there are other options available to us at that point. That's what the 2nd amendment is for.
When it comes down to it, Apple should have been more forthcoming about tracking and logging our locations. I don't really care, personally, but I can definitely see where others are coming from on that. Other than that, it doesn't annoy me at all that Apple, or AT&T, or the administration might know where my call is good now. With new technology comes new vulnerabilities, but that's life.
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