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Title: iPhone users Post by: TimothyVanwinkle on March 05, 2015, 09:04:15 AM It's a little scary how much info your phone holds about you
Settings Privacy Location services System services Frequent locations. It even names the places home and work. Title: Re: iPhone users Post by: RED-DOG on March 05, 2015, 09:30:48 AM Not if you keep refusing Google's request to track your location it doesn't. :)
Title: Re: iPhone users Post by: DaveShoelace on March 05, 2015, 10:22:25 AM I resigned myself a long time ago to the fact that everything I ever do, some creepy little bastard at apple/google/amazon etc will know. It's the price of being able to get the best driving route from Sheffield to Cambridge on your phone, or being able to find out the answer to 'what was the name of the mean warden in porridge?' in 20 seconds flat.
Title: Re: iPhone users Post by: Graham C on March 05, 2015, 12:16:20 PM It's not unique to iPhone users, it's all mobile phone users, well smartphone users.
Title: Re: iPhone users Post by: baldock92 on March 05, 2015, 01:18:56 PM A lot of technology companies have this information about everyone, it's nothing to be paranoid about though. It's not like some technician is hired specifically to track your daily activity, or spy on you through the camera on your phone/ laptop.
Title: Re: iPhone users Post by: titaniumbean on March 05, 2015, 03:45:51 PM even though they clearly have an insane amount of access, some companies will be worse than others.
I already posted this in the browsing question thread but as this is a similar topic have an article by the Apple CEO recently about privacy. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/11441265/Terrorists-should-be-eliminated-says-Apples-Tim-Cook.html |