Re: [Fed-Talk] Response to Higher over The "Apple Tracking"Headlines?
Re: [Fed-Talk] Response to Higher over The "Apple Tracking"Headlines?
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Response to Higher over The "Apple Tracking"Headlines?
- From: "Danziger, Alan D." <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:40:08 -0400
- Acceptlanguage: en-US
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] Response to Higher over The "Apple Tracking"Headlines?
I have not seen anyone claiming (reputably or otherwise) that the
information is sent off to Apple (or anyone else).
I have seen reputable claims that it was NOT being sent off of the device,
other than in the backups, which the user has the option of encrypting by
hitting a checkbox in iTunes and typing in a password.
Here is the link to the forensic expert discussing his findings (published
in multiple forms last year - this is not new information, merely
sensationalized ... Perhaps due to Apple's earnings report yesterday?):
http://alexlevinson.wordpress.com/2011/04/21/3-major-issues-with-the-latest
-iphone-tracking-discovery/
If anyone has seen a link to someone showing that the information is being
sent off of the device over the air, please share that info.
My personal belief is that this information is _generated_ for perfectly
valid reasons, but should have been deleted or truncated (e.g. "only keep
the last week's data") regularly.
Regards,
-=Alan
On 4/21/11 5:17 PM, "Moore, Dallas T." <email@hidden> wrote:
>I think the overall point is this: the data is being generated by iOS
>and stored on the devices and in backups. There are multiple ways for
>that information to be retrieved - whether the device phones home to
>Apple (which I've heard happens), someone accesses the device remotely
>(via an app or other access method), the device is hooked up to a
>forensic tool like the Cellbrite, or someone accesses an un-encrypted
>backup on a computer...
>
>Which then brings us to the question... why is the data being generated
>in the first place? If it's used for geo-tagging pictures or used in a
>location based app (Foursquare, etc...), then that's ok, so long as the
>user accepts that part of the device/app functionality (which most do).
>If the device or your workstation is sending the information back to
>Apple because they want it... then what use does Apple derive from such
>a data set?
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