From: William Robb
On 03/06/2011 11:02 AM, John Francis wrote:
>
>
> 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.
>
>
There was, when this topic was in the news, some concern that police
were carrying devices that could download the contents of these devices,
and were able to do so wirelessly.
I don't know how much, if any, truth there is to this, but the thought
of it is rather chilling.
IIRC, the big complaint was that the stored information could be
retrieved by the authorities without the user knowing. The capability is
inherent in the app, but I didn't see anything indicating that it was
actually being done currently.
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