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Submitted via IRC for Bytram
Your iPhone Has A Hidden List of Every Location You've Been
Hiding in not-so-plain sight, deep within the depths of your iPhone's settings (seven layers deep, to be exact) is a level of location tracking that very few iPhone users are aware of and probably won't feel comfortable with.
Sure, many of us know that our iPhone generally tracks us when we use certain apps to enable it to share personalized information like the local weather, coffee shop recommendations, and more.
But in a quick survey I ran with some friends, not one person (out of dozens of people that I surveyed) knew where or how to navigate to this specific screen that I'm talking about here. It's called the Significant Locations list.
The Significant Locations list shows a minute-by-minute route history of my exact whereabouts in every location I've been over the past few years.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday March 12 2019, @03:06PM (1 child)
The guys on television probably can't turn the machine off and on, without help. The guys at the police station who hope to convict you of child pornography can access your browser history, with little effort. The hardest part of their job, is to filter through the results, to find what they want. This tool makes it brain-dead easy, so that you don't even need to understand how it's done. https://www.foxtonforensics.com/browser-history-viewer/ [foxtonforensics.com]
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday March 12 2019, @03:11PM
Mmmmm. I submitted that link, because it had the information I was looking for. Looking at it now, I don't know how it's pronouned. "Fox ton forensics" or fuckstonforensics" or ???