I don't know about you, but I love watching the Simpsons cartoon show! And if you also love watching the Simpsons, you'll love the new TomTom update.
Yesterday, TomTom announced that it has ported its popular Homer Simpson voice for turn-by-turn directions to its U.S. iPhone GPS Navigation app...
Apple has decided to officially respond to the iPhone's location database issue that has been undergoing intense scrutiny by the media and industry experts. In a Q&A response, Apple has addressed why the iPhone logs your location, and what Apple does with that information.
An alleged email from Steve Jobs answered this issue already with a simple response: "We don't track anyone." That's the message that Apple is confirming with this Q&A response...
Continuing with the whole iOS location-tracking fiasco, the folks over at All Things D have posted a video from last year of Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Google Android co-founder and former CEO, Andy Rubin, discussing their thoughts regarding privacy and location tracking on smartphones.
The video footage includes snippets from last years D8 conference and December 2010's Dive Into Mobile conference. Both Jobs and Rubin assured smartphone owners that privacy was valued on both platforms...
I had a feeling this was coming. The very first lawsuit has been filed against Apple for the highly controversial tracking of location data from the iPhone and iPad.
According to Bloomberg, a lawsuit was filed against Apple on April 22nd in Tampa, Florida, at a federal court by iPhone user, Vikram Ajjampur, and iPad user, William Devito. The two iDevice users claim that Apple has been surreptitiously tracking the location of iPhone and iPad owners.
They claim to have filed the lawsuit in an effort to stop the alleged data collection by Apple.
If you've been keeping up with the latest iPhone news, you've most likely heard about the infamous location database. At first, everyone thought that Apple was stalking your every move through a saved database of your GPS coordinates, but then some experts weighed in and said that simply wasn't the case.
The iPhone's GPS is operated through a system called Location Services. There was reason to believe that turning off Location Services would disable Apple's location database form storing your information, but that turns out to not be true.
Apple is going to collect your location data whether you like it or not, and your location gets sent to Apple at least twice a day...
Are you still a little paranoid about the iPhone location-tracking file? Are you afraid that Apple or your carrier is tracking your every move?
Lucky for you, there's a new jailbreak tweak called Auto Location that automatically toggles your iPhone's Location Services on and off. When you're not using an app that requires GPS, Auto Location will turn the iPhone's Location Services off. When you open an app that requires Location Services, Auto Location turns it back on...
The media has been firing on all cylinders about the public uncovering of the iPhone's shady location database file. Speculation has been that Apple and/or network carriers are intentionally tracking the coordinates of iPhone users through the device's Location Services.
Experts on the issue have deemed the location database non-threatening, legal, and most likely a simple mistake on Apple's end. If you want anymore clarification, Steve Jobs himself has shed some light on this issue, calling it "false."
A couple days ago, we told you about a discovery made by two researchers concerning location data collection on the iPhone. Apparently, the iPhone logs your GPS coordinates for an unspecified amount of time and saves that data to a system-level consolidated.db file that is then synced over to iTunes upon backup.
This finding was demonstrated at the Where 2.0 conference by British programmers Pete Warden and Alasdair Allen. They claimed the discovery as their own, when in fact it has actually been a known issue in the security community since last year.
We reported yesterday on the iPhone location tracking bug that has been buzzing around the internet for the last 48 hours. It's been making headlines from tech sites to blogs of privacy advocate groups, like Epic (Electronic Privacy Information Center).
For those that haven't heard: A hidden file in iOS versions 4.0 and above has been found that actually records the user's location fairly frequently. I'm not talking about Facebook requesting your location, I mean it records your GPS coordinates with a time stamp to a secret file. Was this in the EULA (End-User License Agreement)?
Ryan Petrich has released a new jailbreak utility in Cydia called untrackerd. This utility blocks iOS from saving the secretly logged location data that the iPhone stores in a system file.
In case you didn't know, some researchers recently discovered that the iPhone records and saves your location coordinates without your permission. The location data is then stored to a system-level file that is then copied over to iTunes on sync.
Most of you are probably aware that the iPhone can track your location. We've all seen the box pop up that says "Facebook would like to use your location data," and then you tap Allow or Cancel.
But how many of you knew that the iPhone constantly tracks your location and records your coordinates alongside a time stamp to a secret file? I assumed that police might have access to that kind of info through my wireless carrier, but I didn't know it was sitting in a file on my phone...
If you remember correctly, back in 2009 Apple quietly purchased a GPS mapping software company named PlaceBase. The move was strange considering how big a part Google has played in iOS mapping software. But it is now clear Apple may be looking to independently develop mapping software for their mobile platform.
9to5 Mac has stumbled on an Apple job posting that calls for an iOS Maps application developer. The add specifically asks for an "exceptional developer" that will help "radically improve how people interact with maps and location-based services." What is Apple planning?