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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: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday March 12 2019, @02:24PM (9 children)
Just a quick, informal survey. How many of us here knows that Windows saves _every_single_website_visited_with_internet_explorer complete with time and date?
ICE is having a Pretti Good season.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday March 12 2019, @02:51PM (4 children)
Wait! So you're saying that on TV when someone looks at another's internet browser history to see what they've been doing . . .
THAT IS REAL !!! ???
Not just fiction for the story?
For some odd reason all scientific instruments searching for intelligent life are pointed away from Earth.
(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]
ICE is having a Pretti Good season.
(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 ???
ICE is having a Pretti Good season.
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday March 12 2019, @09:17PM (1 child)
I don't do Computer. But if I did, that would be an absolute LIFE SAVER. Because I'd never loose a website again. On behalf of the Computer folks, our happy Computer people -- thank you, Microsoft!
(Score: 2, Disagree) by DannyB on Tuesday March 12 2019, @09:33PM
Rather . . . NO THANKS to Microsoft.
The success of computer technology is despite Microsoft, not because of it.
For some odd reason all scientific instruments searching for intelligent life are pointed away from Earth.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday March 12 2019, @05:42PM (3 children)
Internet explorer ? That's a crime in itself.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday March 12 2019, @07:59PM (2 children)
Which version of the crime are you thinking of? There are now so many to choose from.
For some odd reason all scientific instruments searching for intelligent life are pointed away from Earth.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday March 12 2019, @08:52PM (1 child)
Can't chose one. You have to taylor your response to each version.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday March 12 2019, @08:56PM
Oh, how true that is!
IE: the bane of web developers everywhere.
For some odd reason all scientific instruments searching for intelligent life are pointed away from Earth.