Comments on: My Thoughts on This Whole “LocationGate” Thing https://isource.com/2011/04/27/my-thoughts-on-this-whole-locationgate-thing/ #1 Source for iPad, iPhone, iPod, Mac and AppleTV Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:36:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.6 By: Ivan Williams https://isource.com/2011/04/27/my-thoughts-on-this-whole-locationgate-thing/#comment-35019 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:36:53 +0000 http://isource.com/?p=37471#comment-35019 Here, here! Well, said…

]]> By: jhrogersii https://isource.com/2011/04/27/my-thoughts-on-this-whole-locationgate-thing/#comment-34998 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:56:22 +0000 http://isource.com/?p=37471#comment-34998 I agree with you on this issue. Apple isn’t cooking up any evil schemes with our location databases.

Even though Apple included a clause about location tracking in their EULA, they should make a more obvious warning about this on the device for good measure. That would make the whole thing go down a little easier.

The biggest issue here, in my humble opinion, is Apple’s uncharacteristically poor execution in this department. We’re hearing that this may be a bug. Was this bug there all the way back in the iPhone 3G? That’s a long time not to catch this. How about the fact that the data persists through a hard reboot? Then there is the fact that the data is transfered to your computer, and isn’t encrypted in any of its locations? For a company built on polished products and programming, they really wiffed on this one. If they had done better, there wouldn’t be near as much tempest in this teapot.

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