iPhone and Location: Don't Panic

stonemirror writes "There's a lot of blind panic out there over the discovery of a database file on the iPhone which contains dated location information. Without actually looking at the data, a lot of folks have proclaimed that the 'iPhone is tracking your every move.' I actually did take a look at the data, and it's not doing anything like that."

Comments

Re:Anecdotal

[Lumpy]

You know what, people like you that cant be bothered to actually look at the data yourself or do any research but are loudly speculating are a big part of the problem. If you took a few minutes and looked you would see that it's cellphone tower locations. anyone that took a few minutes to correlate their data would have seen it. ALL CELLPHONES that do the "enhanced fake GPS" that uses cellphone towers for a fake gps in the phone as well as a faster location before the gps get's a real fix do this. The same data cache is in nokias and android phones.

But no, let's not find out what it is let's wildly speculate and try to punch holes in the story of the one guy that did take the time to look and then told everyone they were all being idiots. Me, I quietly sat there watching the fools go into panic mode over nothing. I got quite a laugh out of this over the past 48 hours.

You are the one that "fucked up" apple is doing what android phones are doing as well as most other cellphones are doing.

P.S. for the losers that are going to say "citation please" about the android phones... look for yourself.... https://github.com/packetlss/android-locdump

Re:Blinders

[Antisyzygy]

Thats a funny thing to say. I haven't meant a group of people with more delusions than Apple fanboi's. They still think their Mac's are superior in every way regardless of what evidence you throw in front of them. They also routinely act like assholes when anyone criticizes Apple's business practices or products at all. They also tend to be major Apple apologists no matter what underhanded crap Apple pulls or no matter how often Apple proves its just like every other big business tech. corp. To an Apple fanboi, everyone that isn't an Apple fanboi is an "Apple Hater", even if they like PC's and own some Apple products.