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April 20, 2011

Steve Jobs and Apple are spying on you

Well, if you have an iPhone or iPad, they are. Ditto if you save iPhone or iPad info to a Mac computer.

I saw this and said, "just wow." In the consumer part of the tech world, Apple, even more than Google, has a reputation (though not totally deserved even before this) of being "good guys."

No longer, eh?

Not only is Apple sniffing out and tracking your location, the data it gets from that is unencrypted.

Here's the final insult to injury:
It turns out that there is no way to remove the data from your iPhone or 3G-enabled iPad — and there is no way to stop the devices from recording anything further. All you can do is secure the information that is on your computer — you can do so by selecting the "encrypted backups" options in the syncing settings — and be aware that all this data exists.
Waiting for Steve Jobs to explain, or try to explain away, this one.
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2 comments:

  1. Anonymous10:45 PM, April 20, 2011

    My wife and I were going to purchase iPhones and iPads. Unless Apple removes the program, we're not going to.
    SHAME ON YOU APPLE!
    YOU JUST LOST A PROSPECTIVE CUSTOMER.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Anonymous10:46 PM, April 20, 2011

    My wife and I were going to purchase iPhones and iPads. Unless Apple removes the program, we're not going to.
    SHAME ON YOU APPLE!
    YOU JUST LOST A PROSPECTIVE CUSTOMER.

    ReplyDelete

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