Apple can find you (read here) with your iPhone or iPad this opens the door to finding other things or activities you do with your iPhone or iPad.
I was just trying to point out that cell phones and other devices being able to track location is as old news as cell phones causing brain tumors. Though now that you brought it up: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/devra-davis-phd/cell-phones-and-brain-can_b_585992.html
Try saying that to 85% of the world :whip:
And that wasn’t a phone-related comment
As for Apple, if people aren’t aware of what their electronics are capable of, perhaps they shouldn’t have one.
I turn it on, it plays my awful taste in music - therefore I use it
I could not care LESS if apple could know where I am, what I do or anything like that. There are 6.83 billion people in the world, I don’t know why I’m so special
If there’s no scientific evidence or statistically significant research to back it up, it’s got no credibility.
As for Apple, if people aren’t aware of what their electronics are capable of, perhaps they shouldn’t have one.
How this is news is beyond me every iteration of the iPhone has had GPS (of some sort) built in and thereby, applications making use of the API could do the same as Google Maps functionality and determine your location. So I guess congratulations to them for being 4 years or so behind world events.
It’s common sense that they could track you I suppose, the media puts news such as this out there for those that don’t realize that they could track them.
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If you have a cell phone they can find you too. Plus I hear they cause brain cancer.
Long term, I do believe the battery of all cell phone can cause brain cancer because it is so strong and people are having it by there brains constantly and by there hearts. It is your choice to pour cold water on this subject but there are other studies that people pour cold water on that are very accurate while others are either to tell us what to believe or are far fetched.[/ot]
No scientific evidence has ever shown a remote link, it’s not factually correct.
i don’t like it, it opens up for more targeted personalised advertising and marketing. but everything is legal in the name of money and marketing value…
for cellphones and cancer - i read a transcript of the WHO report at may 17, and from what i was reading, there was no single evidence to back this cancer thingie up. but at the same time to early to conclude that there is no risk.
they were now talking about a new research - over 30years, with more than 250 000 people i Europe…
Interesting, but Huffington have a regular habit of snipping bits of information to make the story read what they feel sounds best (or will attract the most amount of readers). I’ll have to check out the research via the world health organization but as things go, their not exactly a credible source of anything. As for the Google link, you do realise half the websites that proclaim links between cancer and cellphones are the same kind of individuals who still think vaccines give you autism (uninformed scaremonger’s). If it’s not in a peer reviewed medical journal or credible scientific source, I’ll take it at face value (in this case untrue).
If you have a cell phone they can find you too. Plus I hear they cause brain cancer.
Well, one thing is that the technology exists and you suspect that’s being used to know where you are and what you do (which of course, we know) and something else that they add a paragraph in their terms to get your acceptance to do so.
How this is news is beyond me every iteration of the iPhone has had GPS (of some sort) built in and thereby, applications making use of the API could do the same as Google Maps functionality and determine your location. So I guess congratulations to them for being 4 years or so behind world events.