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posted by takyon on Tuesday March 12 2019, @09:09AM   Printer-friendly
from the surveillance-device-caught-doing-surveillance dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday March 13 2019, @02:42PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday March 13 2019, @02:42PM (#813732) Journal

    I copy/pasted the spelling from somewhere. Now I can't remember where. I think I googled it. I didn't expect that to fail me.

    I don't have my Nexus 6P any more, at least not handy. If it took it out of the case it has the brand name clearly on the back.

    Thanks for pointing it out.

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