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: Jeffrey Walton <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 18:11:00 -0400
> I have not seen anyone claiming (reputably or otherwise) that the
> information is sent off to Apple (or anyone else).
Its in Apple's license agreement:
To provide location-based services on Apple products, Apple and our
partners and licensees may collect, use, and share precise location
data, including the real-time geographic location of your Apple
computer or device. This location data is collected anonymously in a
form that does not personally identify you and is used by Apple and
our partners and licensees to provide and improve location-based
products and services. For example, we may share geographic location
with application providers when you opt in to their location services.
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Danziger, Alan D. <email@hidden> wrote:
> 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?
>
> [SNIP]
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