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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 11 2018, @12:44PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 11 2018, @12:44PM (#691371)

    They renamed it for the usual reason of software and business renaming to avoid the negativity associated with the previous name?