Re: Transparent tracking with iphone.
Dave Land <[email protected]>
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On Apr 22, 2011, at 6:42 AM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: > At 11:42 PM Thursday 4/21/2011, Dave Land wrote: >> On Apr 21, 2011, at 8:31 AM, Keith Henson wrote: >> >>> Wonder what David thinks of this? >>> >>> http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/mobile/04/20/iphone.tracking/ >> >> David _Brin_ thinks this: >> >> http://twitter.com/#!/DavidBrin1/status/61181497515843584 >> >> "Spy Conspiracy: Your iPhone is secretly tracking everywhere you've >> been, all the time via @Gizmodo http://gizmodo.com/#!5793925/your- >> iphone-is-secretly-tracking-everywhere-youve-been" >> >> David _Land_ thinks this: >> >> http://twitter.com/#!/dland/status/61206837550252032 >> >> "@DavidBrin1 @Gizmodo What a non-story: the phone stores data >> locally, >> doesn't transmit it. Where's the problem?" > > > Michigan? > > "License, registration, proof of insurance, and cell phone, please.": > > http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/04/aclu-concerned-over-michigan-state-police-extracting-phone-data.html Isn't that a separate issue: unreasonable search and seizure? That said, the existence of that data in consolidated.db on iPhones (most likely as the result of an error or oversight, as it turns out, rather than nefarious misbehavior on the part of Apple) may constitute an "attractive nuisance", which the command-and-control apparatus may be unable to resist. Dave