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Your iPhone Has A Hidden List of Every Location You’ve Been

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

upstart writes:

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 aristarchus on Tuesday March 12 2019, @09:20AM (6 children)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Tuesday March 12 2019, @09:20AM (#813142) Journal

    Now we know why jmorris never stops by anymore. Poor jmorris! We will pray for his soul, and his iPhone location, wherever that might be.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Tuesday March 12 2019, @02:42PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday March 12 2019, @02:42PM (#813271) Journal

    I thought it was because he didn't understand the contracts he had agreed to by creating a user account.

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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday March 12 2019, @06:00PM (3 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday March 12 2019, @06:00PM (#813393) Journal

    I was hoping he got hit by a large vehicle, or maybe contracted a fatal and embarrassing disease...

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    • (Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Tuesday March 12 2019, @06:46PM (2 children)

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday March 12 2019, @06:46PM (#813411) Journal

      Surely you must mean 'contracted' as in a binding agreement where mutual consideration is exchanged.

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      • (Score: 3, Funny) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday March 13 2019, @02:04AM (1 child)

        by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday March 13 2019, @02:04AM (#813555) Journal

        My guess is he sold his soul for $SOMETHING and now ol' horns-and-pitchfork came to collect his due :D Contracts!

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        • (Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Wednesday March 13 2019, @02:52PM

          by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday March 13 2019, @02:52PM (#813740) Journal

          Sometimes people who have an anti-law bent and don't believe the laws of society apply to them, because of their "freedom" to not obey the law . . . they can end up on the wrong side of the law, and possibly not have internet access. It can happen.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by ilsa on Tuesday March 12 2019, @09:19PM

    by ilsa (6082) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday March 12 2019, @09:19PM (#813476)

    Oh hey, your right! I had totally forgotten about him, but yeah, the discussions have been a lot less painfully ignorant lately.