iPhone Tracking You
I recently read an article pondering why nobody has gotten extremely outraged against the iPhone tracking its users locations and storing it in a plain text file. They keep asking a bunch of "what ifs" about how we'd react to other companies do this, but I think they're missing a big example: Google.
Google was found to be accidentally storing information that people were broadcasting from their homes and countries across the world are going after them for this.
I finally determined why it is that the same response hasn't happened with the iPhone: The government must be using it and/or wants it to be tracked. When that potentially private data is in Google's hands, the government can only get a hold of it by suing them so they can't delete it and then getting it in discovery. Apple must already give the government that location data whenever they request it.
It's not shocking to see Apple on the wrong side of this.
Google was found to be accidentally storing information that people were broadcasting from their homes and countries across the world are going after them for this.
I finally determined why it is that the same response hasn't happened with the iPhone: The government must be using it and/or wants it to be tracked. When that potentially private data is in Google's hands, the government can only get a hold of it by suing them so they can't delete it and then getting it in discovery. Apple must already give the government that location data whenever they request it.
It's not shocking to see Apple on the wrong side of this.