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iPhone & iPad are Criticized Secretly Tracking Users’ Location Datas

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Gabriel1 said:
Hmm, well you must have seen what happens to all his close personal friends!

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Sorry for delay in response.....just awoke form a coma.

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We can make some comments on that, but the question is why Apple need that information and what the reason behind this act. They want to track the location of users, for what.
 

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Oh well they can only track me at wifi spots and when I am using astronomy apps and my gps device. hello big brother here I am!!!:D Woo Hooo
 
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martincrow said:
We can make some comments on that, but the question is why Apple need that information and what the reason behind this act. They want to track the location of users, for what.

cjoy said:
Oh well they can only track me at wifi spots and when I am using astronomy apps and my gps device. hello big brother here I am!!!:D Woo Hooo

Apple does not track the location of the user. It keeps a record of where the iOS device has located a radio mast, or a Wifi network. So the next time an iOS device sees the same radio mast/wifi, the device can guess it's current location. Apple does this to build up a database cheaply, because this way any iOS device can find it's current location, whenever it is in a place where another iOS user has been before.
 

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Thank you for the information, can always learn something. I was trying to be funny though!:)
 

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