Apple’s Location Tracking Is An Outrage — Where’s The Apology?

Henry-

Why don't you at least wait until the furor dies down and the details emerge before you get outraged? The stories are coming out now that these locations and time stamps do not use GPS and are relevant to cell towers and WiFi units in your vicinity, useful for efficient operation. Perhaps the outrage should be over the unencrypted nature and/or the length of time the data is maintained, but to jump on the "tracking" bandwagon is really a knee-jerk reaction.

Thompson

Oh please. Get over yourself. All cell phones track you. Sheesh.

Next time you're in a public place, try to find all the cameras that are watching you. It's naive to think Apple is single-handedly creating an Orwellian society.

Henry Blodgett is a lying SOS.

@#$% Blodget. This "tracking" isn't an outrage. Apple is not going to issue an apology. And iPhone owners don't need or deserve one. Henry, you only continue to display your utter ignorance of technical matters by blowing this "story" out of all proportion to its seriousness, and prove what anyone who follows the tech business already knows...you're a dedicated Apple hating idiot.

Henry you are such a hypocrite. Get a life! You are the only one making a big deal out of it to grab some attention. Your AOL target price of 660 has not been forgotten speaks of itself.
Millions are not outraged and do not give it a @#$%. When you go on the internet, you are tracked by million of cookies. unless you are a criminal or need to hide from the law, nobody cares much.

@#$% Witch Hunt! These Guys were obviously short the Stock on Earnings Day. LOL

Those who use Apple and Android phones and tablets get frequent requests from these devices for permission to use tracking information for their location based services. The are also general settings for this. Why is there surprise that there is tracking information?

This is akin to a person being outraged at having their voice recorded when leaving a message on voicemail.

Henry really needs to get a life - preferably one that has nothing to do with technology, since clearly he doesn't have a clue.

if you read the end users agrement, you would have discovered that location data was being collected. Think before you write buddy.

Henry,

This article sucks and you are a @#$%. Where's the apology?

Q.E.D.

Unless you're paranoid or a criminal, what's the big deal about tracking cel tower access?

Not long ago, it was discovered that personal information from Facebook was being sent to Google. I thought that was worse than this. They just said it was a mistake and they would fix it. This Apple file only keeps track of cell towers you were near, not your exact location. Unless you're a serial killer, I'd say don't worry about it.

The only thing that is "outrageous" is the reaction of the press who haven't even looked into the details. 1) There is published information that will tell you how to access this information on the *backups* of your phone. There is no evidence that ANYTHING is ever sent back to Apple without the phone prompting about whether you permit it. You can prevent access to the backups by turning on encryption. The only way to get access to the information is to steal or hack into the computer where you sync your phone, install the program to read the data and and run it. Then all it will give you is the location of the cell towers that your phone was in contact with at the time, not your actual location. Frankly, this would make a better alibi for someone than evidence.

Ohhh, the outrage. Good grief. It is not clear to me from this article that the author really understands the nature of the data recorded by all smart phones (let alone, mobile communications companies that manage the towers). It sounds to me like Henry conjured his headline first and filled in the story as an afterthought.

This is BUNK !!!!!!!!
Just selling news.
"MUCH ADU ABOUT NOTHING"
YOU have been tracked for years::::
Cell phones AND , guess what????
Your TV SIGNAL provider. What time logged on, logged off AND PROGRAMS. That means they know when you go to work and come home.
Amazon and Ebay know all about you to.
Unless on GPS they can only triangulate between towers.
Don't panic !!!
OBAMA is not listening and following you around.

are you a terrorist Henry ?? what you so worried about. Maybe we should alert Homeland Security to your "abnormal behavior".

Henry, you are such a tool. "Watch the video to see why what Apple is doing is different than what Google is doing". Really? Have you watched it? There is nothing in the video and actually what Google is doing is actually worse than what Apple has done. What a tool......

Blodget is a hit @#$%.

Who cares unless you have something to hide.