All cell phones can be traced to the cell towers that they connect to by the wireless provider. Do you really think that Verizon or AT&T aren't keeping records of which cell towers your phone is talking to, and the time/date?
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 1:02 PM, John Francis <jo...@panix.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 10:33:23AM -0600, steve harley wrote: >> On 2011-06-03 09:32 , William Robb wrote: >> >On 03/06/2011 8:37 AM, Mat Maessen wrote: >> >>On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 10:35 AM, William Robb >> >>>Apparently, if you have an iPhone, it it almost constantly recording >> >>>it's >> >>>whereabouts (and generally it's owner's whereabouts) on an almost >> >>>continuous >> >>>basis. >> >> >> >>Every smartphone that has a GPS in it does this. It's how the >> >>applications on the phone know where you are. >> > >> >It's the recording it to a database that I find unsavoury. >> >> it doesn't store the location of the phone, it caches the locations >> of cell towers and wifi signals; these are the data that make >> geolocation so much faster than with GPS alone > > > Sophistry. Apple might not store the location of the phone, but > the phone did (together with a timestamp). It was trivially easy > to show where the phone had been during the previous days or weeks; > all the news reports I saw showed an application doing exactly that. > > That's what people object to - unwittingly carrying a spy in their > pocket. I wouldn't necessarily want my employer to know that I'd > been on the same street (or even in the same town) as the head office > of a major competitor; other people probably don't want their wife > (or their parents) to know which part of town they've been visiting. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- David Parsons Photography http://www.davidparsonsphoto.com Aloha Photographer Photoblog http://alohaphotog.blogspot.com/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
