Sony admits utter PSN failure: your personal data has been stolen

[Avatard]

Originally Posted by shmike

Sorry to keep dragging this up...

My understanding is that Apple is NOT watching your every move, Apple products are.

If I own and possess said product, the only person that has access to those recordings is me.

Is that accurate?

Apple claims they're not using the data. Other sources indicate the data is uploaded to Apple twice daily.

[shmike]

Originally Posted by Avatard

Apple claims they're not using the data. Other sources indicate the data is uploaded to Apple twice daily.

If that is true, then I can see the logic behind the uproar.

[Particle Man]

Originally Posted by Apoc

Ummm, no... Apple lost and was humiliated by the judge when he delivered his verdict. Jailbreaking is perfect legal. You need to read up on what actually happened.

Aside from software, which is of course protected by piracy laws.

I wasn't talking about the end result of the lawsuits, I was talking about what they've said in the past.

[anthonyk]

Originally Posted by Avatard

Apple claims they're not using the data. Other sources indicate the data is uploaded to Apple twice daily.

Huh? Apple said pretty clearly they were using the data.

edit: http://www.twowheelfix.com/showpost....7&postcount=20

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Originally Posted by anthonyk

Huh? Apple said pretty clearly they were using the data.

edit: http://www.twowheelfix.com/showpost....7&postcount=20

Except when they said they weren't.



"Apple is not tracking the location of your iPhone. Apple has never done so and has no plans to ever do so. "

Can you say DOUBLE TALK??

[shmike]

Originally Posted by anthonyk

Huh? Apple said pretty clearly they were using the data.

edit: http://www.twowheelfix.com/showpost....7&postcount=20

Thank you for the informative link.

It is so much better seeing stuff like this than internet hearsay.

[anthonyk]

Originally Posted by Avatard

Except when they said they weren't.



"Apple is not tracking the location of your iPhone. Apple has never done so and has no plans to ever do so. "

Can you say DOUBLE TALK??

"Tracking the location of your iPhone" and having anonymized location data sent to Apple are two very different things. I don't see any double talk.

The big for me is the explanation of the nature of the data itself. It may be totally true that it just logs the location of wifi hotspots and cell towers, but saying that data isn't also showing the location of your phone seems like semantics to me.

But again, if the only thing leaving my phone to go to Apple is anonymous location data, who cares? And I've got a lot more sensitive stuff on my computer than where my phone has been for the past year. If I was paranoid, I'd encrypt my phone backups.

[Sixxxxer]

Originally Posted by Tmall

$5 a month..

Meant to say year...And they upped it to 60 Actually but yes it's still about 5 a Month.

[jtemple]

Originally Posted by Avatard

Except when they said they weren't.



"Apple is not tracking the location of your iPhone. Apple has never done so and has no plans to ever do so. "

Can you say DOUBLE TALK??

Did you read the article?

The iPhone is not logging your location. Rather, it’s maintaining a database of Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers around your current location, some of which may be located more than one hundred miles away from your iPhone

The points that are plotted in the database in question are wifi hotspot and cell tower locations around you, not the actual location of you and your phone.

[Avatard]

Originally Posted by jtemple

Did you read the article?

No, I quoted from it with my eyes closed.