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Apple: "We must Have Comprehensive Location Data"

Posted by samzenpus on from the I-always-feel-like-somebody's-watching-me dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Apple's iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, the iPhone 4, and iPad models are keeping track of consumers whereabouts. Mac computers running Snow Leopard and even Windows computers running Safari 5 are being watched. But the question is why? 'To provide the high quality products and services that its customers demand, Apple must have access to the comprehensive location-based information,' Apple says."

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  1. Re:So, who's the "customer"? by perbert · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Your users or world governments?

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  2. Re:So, who's the "customer"? by Minupla · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I believe what the OP was referring to was:
    http://www.priv.gc.ca/media/nr-c/2010/nr-c_101019_e.cfm

    In this case it was Google street view cars driving by. obviously in this case the people's whose privacy was impacted had no opportunity to agree to a EULA

    Now I will agree that the cases may be completely different, but I think thats what the OP was getting at.

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