Words of Advice:
"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne
“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *
"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown
“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie
"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul
"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad
"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown
"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers
"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown
"Eck!" -- George the Cat
* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone
9 comments:
I remember a long time ago when they announced that the I-phones, which had this capability, would be useful to Homeland Security (or whatever they were calling it then) to track terrrrsstt.
Thanks for following up.
Cell phones have similar capability, not sure if they are tracking it in the phone but the TPC can log it from the towers that phone checks in with.
On one level it's a yawn. OF another level it's quite sinister as the data has great potential for misuse and abuse. When there is potential for abuse it generally means it's being abused!
Eck!
I figure the GPS ability of smart phones uses basic triangulation from local cel towers to pinpoint where the phone is, and the data could just be locally cached (instead of flushed) for future reference, since storage space is cheap. Not encrypting or auto flushing the data may have been a programing blind spot on the part of the coder(s). I generally don't equate laziness or stupidity with evil unless there is a definite trend.
After some searching here is a good explanation:
http://tinyurl.com/3csd2ks
Sorry, had to correct a typo...
I seem to recall seeing something on the news lately that Michigan (if I'm recalling correctly) is going to make it so that if you're stopped for any reason by traffic cops (even a burned out tail light), they will be authorized to remove data from your smartphone - and maybe from any computer you have in your possession (somebody may need to correct me on this), so they can see where you've been and what you've been doing. Yep, warrantless searches are here, no cause for suspicion needed. Nothing to see here; move along, Comrade....
This is happening on non-Apple devices too.
All cell phones provide tracking data to cell phone towers, it's a legal requirement (see: E911 requirement) for all cell phones sold in America. All of this data is immediately available to law enforcement with nothing more than a simple letter stating that you are a "person of interest", no warrant required (see: PEN register exemption, plus recent Supremes dancing on GPS tracking).
The only difference here is that the iPhone for some reason also retained this data internally in its own memory. Apple says that this was a mistake and that they will fix it in a future release of the iPhone OS. So it goes.
- Badtux the Privacy Penguin
Here's why Apple is doing this - or, why their chief counsel says they're doing it. For customer service. And it's all anonymized data that's beamed back to Apple. Yeah.
Apple's letter and pdf.
Interesting details. Cell tower data ( signal strengths, drops ) are logged, as are all WiFis used on the route.
You can either assume this is an innocent network maintenance effort - or that it's a sinister mandate of the feds. The truth may be in between those extremes.
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