Henry Blodget
Business Insider
April 23, 2011
Your iPhone has been secretly tracking and recording everywhere you go for the past several years.
Read that again.
Your iPhone has been secretly tracking and recording everywhere you go for the past several years.
That’s right. Apple built this feature into your iPhone and hid it from you. By doing so, Apple made it possible for anyone who gets ahold of your iPhone or Mac (or any other device synced with either) to figure out exactly where you were when.
That is absolutely outrageous.
If any other company had done this, America’s privacy zealots would be demanding the CEO’s resignation. There would be threats. There would be lawsuits. There would, at the very least, be incessant demands for the company to acknowledge the behavior, explain it, and apologize for it.
And yet, because the company is Apple, there have been none of those things.
Instead, Apple fans like John Gruber have suggested that the secret feature is a “bug.“ And there have been mainstream media stories suggesting that it must be some kind of “mistake.”
Bug?
Mistake?
Apple built a system into your iPhone that secretly tracks and records everywhere you go. This system records your exact location and the exact time you were there–down to the second.
Anyone who gets ahold of your phone or computer can tell exactly where you were when: Police, people suing you, your husband/wife, your employer, private investigators, the government–anyone. And Apple didn’t tell you that!
Please explain, with a straight face, how that could possibly be a “bug” or “mistake.”
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