- From: Thomas Roessler <tlr@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 17:56:21 +0200
- To: Karl Dubost <karld@opera.com>
- Cc: Thomas Roessler <tlr@w3.org>, "public-privacy (W3C mailing list)" <public-privacy@w3.org>
On 20 Apr 2011, at 16:01, Karl Dubost wrote: > Geolocation and data retention. > > Today at Where 2.0 Pete Warden and I will announce > the discovery that your iPhone, and your 3G iPad, is > regularly recording the position of your device into > a hidden file. Ever since iOS 4 arrived, your device > has been storing a long list of locations and time > stamps. We're not sure why Apple is gathering this > data, but it's clearly intentional, as the database > is being restored across backups, and even device > migrations. The location traces that can be easily extracted from my iPhone backup certainly *are* impressive -- I sort of hadn't expected to carry around a rather detailed trace of my movements over the last 9-12 months. "Creepy" is the most friendly word that comes to mind for this feature. (FWIW, I play around with foursquare, I geotag photos, I archive GPS traces of hikes and runs, and I routinely use many location-based services...) -- Thomas Roessler, W3C <tlr@w3.org> (@roessler)
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