Your IPhone or IPad May Be Tracking Your Every Movement!!

[stateprez]

absolutely nothing if one is honest

A former manager at a former employer made a comment to one of our sales girls that she, "Stayed at a different house every night."  He's lucky he didn't get sued.

I always deferred to having a personal vehicle- didn't tell them it was the Duc.

[RAT900]

She should have replied that she wouldn't have to if he gave her a decent salary :-)

[brimo]

The company is keeping track of their property.
What is wrong with that?

Yes it is their property, but why, when I'm trusted with looking after millions of dollars in contracts and infrastructure,  can't they trust me with their $30,000 vehicle? Or indeed, to trust me to say where I am and when.
I also go back to my "Blue Oyster Bar" comment before, where I am and what I do in my own time is my business.

[Drjones]

Except for the fact that you're in their vehicle and the company can be held liable for any personal or property damage to others incurred by you in their vehicle.

[il d00d]

I am astounded this has not gotten more attention - it is no longer on the front page on google news.  Here is a more reasoned analysis of how this came to be, and what the implications are:
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/04/21/andy-ihnatko-location-log

This message is getting through, but it is not really penetrating my tin foil hat.

More on Term of Service, and how we are all happily allowing all the providers and phone makers to gather tracking information.
http://www.bgr.com/2011/04/20/your-smartphone-is-tracking-you-and-you-said-it-was-okay/

[wbeck257]

Yes it is their property, but why, when I'm trusted with looking after millions of dollars in contracts and infrastructure,  can't they trust me with their $30,000 vehicle? Or indeed, to trust me to say where I am and when.
I also go back to my "Blue Oyster Bar" comment before, where I am and what I do in my own time is my business.

What you do outside the company vehicle after hours is your business.
However, they are keeping track of their property, not you.

If you have a problem with that, get off work, park it, and take your own vehicle.

[brimo]

For all their talk about "safety", "looking after their property" etc. I call Bullshit. It's all about me and my colleagues not cheating on our timesheets.
Just because I'm paranoid, it doesn't mean that they're not out to get me.

[Veloce-Fino]

Just because I'm paranoid, it doesn't mean that they're not out to get me.

Lol, the crazy ones never think they're crazy.

é...'後吐真言 - wine brings out the truth?

[RAT900]

Lol, the crazy ones never think they're crazy.

é...'後吐真言 - wine brings out the truth?

and the ones that say "oh, it would never happen here"...

well the pages of human history bear out how poorly

their prognostications served them

[brimo]

Ya know? I sat down and questioned myself over a Bushmills or two and figured out why this really pissed me off, it wasn't about some sort of concern about Big Brother watching over me or the fact that management looked me in the eye and told me a make the beast with two backsing big lie about their motivations behind this tracking system, it was the fact that by doing this, they were questioning my integrity, and that, I don't like.

[mitt]

Just saw a patent application this week for module inside a handgun to record and transmit GPS information every time a shot is fired...   "It" is inevitable.

[Veloce-Fino]

Just saw a patent application this week for module inside a handgun to record and transmit GPS information every time a shot is fired...   "It" is inevitable.

That's why I already own a large variety of the best built firearms in the world. Let all the new-fangled crap come out with gps tracking and fingerprint ID's. I'm just fine with my collection.   

[il d00d]

Wow...

So beginning with iPhone OS 3.2 released in April 2010, Apple started replacing the Skyhook location database with their own location database.

And the real question is: How did Apple create their own location database? They did not have cars driving around the world. They didn't need to. They had existing iPhone owners around the world do the work for them.

http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002145.html

[derby]

"None of the information transmitted to Apple is associated with a particular user or device."

[Latinbalar]

I don't know what everyone is worried about. Everyboy gives up there location willingly all the time.  (foil hat time). The government invented "checking in" so that they don't have to do the work tracking you.

And second of all, Ladies if your being stalked don't check in at the Starbucks down the street from your house.