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iPhone Always Tracks your Movements

posted by martyb on Monday June 11 2018, @01:01AM   Printer-friendly
from the I-know-where-you-were dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

A feature called Significant Locations collects a detailed history of places you visit on a regular basis. The feature can be disabled via Settings > Privacy > Location Services > System Services > Significant Locations. The feature can be disabled, and history of data collected can be deleted. Apple claims that Significant Locations are encrypted and cannot be read by anyone except the phone owner. Yet, most iPhone users are unaware that their phone records their current location and calculates which locations are significant. Why hasn't Apple made people more aware of this potential violation of their privacy?

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  • (Score: 2) by captain normal on Monday June 11 2018, @01:41AM (2 children)

    by captain normal (2205) on Monday June 11 2018, @01:41AM (#691244)

    Google does this with Android and with most of their apps. You are supposed to be able to control this tracking , but none of their directions to do so seem to work. The problem seems to that Google has become too big. There are too many different departments overlapping in development and no oversight on how it works on the consumer level.

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  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Monday June 11 2018, @02:02AM (1 child)

    by frojack (1554) on Monday June 11 2018, @02:02AM (#691254) Journal

    but none of their directions to do so seem to work

    The all work for me. I periodically delete all my tracking data, after saving placemarks I want to keep.
    Then I let it build up again as I use those features of geolocation I want.

    I use to do this for ad-blocking, but now
    that I run uBlock Origin 24/7 I worry about those ads less and less.

    I'm interested in knowing EXACTLY what you tried that makes you say it doesn't work.

    https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3118687?hl=en [google.com]

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 11 2018, @01:22PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 11 2018, @01:22PM (#691378)

      How do you know your personal data is actually deleted?
      We live in an age where data is the new gold.