> > >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.
you need some decent data protection laws over there. We're very hot on them over here, as you probably know, and we now have partner organisations based in the US who are having to host stuff in Europe because otherwise European clients won't deal with them because of the data protection issues you have there. B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
