Ok Apple this is not cool

APPLE IS SKYNET!

They've been able to do that much longer than that. They could even turn on your phone and listen to what you're doing if they wanted to.

Will this help me find my phone when it gets lodged between my couch cushions?

If you're worried about it, maybe you shouldn't keep a GPS chip in your damn pocket. I'm cool with it, I don't have much to hide. Oh, there is all of that meth fueled gay sex I've been having downtown, but that was gonna come out sooner or later.

" APPLE IS SKYNET! "

" If you're worried about it, maybe you shouldn't keep a GPS chip in your damn pocket. I'm cool with it, I don't have much to hide. Oh, there is all of that meth fueled gay sex I've been having downtown, but that was gonna come out sooner or later. "

Police in the US can now download all your cellphone data in seconds, and it's been occurring in Michigan during routine traffic stops.

The device is called Cellebrite.

So now that your phone can log everywhere you've been, store that data indefinitely, (data is not totally erased when deleted off your storage devices), and can then be instantly retrieved by police when they decide for whatever reason to pull you over or search you. All your phone records, conversation logs, GPS tracking logs, e-mail, internet, pictures, videos, mp3's the whole shabang. It bypasses any passwords or encryptions you have on your phone. Effectively it's making a duplicate image copy of all data on your phone. Data transfer rates are high enough these days that GB's of date can be transferred in less than a minute. 

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Police in the US can now download all your cellphone data in seconds, and it's been occurring in Michigan during routine traffic stops.

The device is called Cellebrite.

So now that your phone can log everywhere you've been, store that data indefinitely, (data is not totally erased when deleted off your storage devices), and can then be instantly retrieved by police when they decide for whatever reason to pull you over or search you. All your phone records, conversation logs, GPS tracking logs, e-mail, internet, the whole shabang.

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" @TooWalrus said:

" If you're worried about it, maybe you shouldn't keep a GPS chip in your damn pocket. I'm cool with it, I don't have much to hide. Oh, there is all of that meth fueled gay sex I've been having downtown, but that was gonna come out sooner or later. "

sounds HOT! "

i already kind of knew this, since well it's a cellphone that uses signals. everyone even if you have an old phone it can be tracked. if your paranoid that your going to get tracked then maybe you shouldn't have a  cellphone.

I don't really care.  Nothing to hide.

I tend to magnate wipe all the drives that I have no use for anymore, you can never be too careful about what data your leaving behind that you don't realize.

*Waits patiently for page long rant from someone*

" I don't really care.  Nothing to hide. "

I'm just interested to know what law allows police to do this without a warrant.

Google knows what you search. Apple where you are. FB who your friends are. And now EU is going to store every SMS, E-mail etc "for use against criminals". Coupled with CCTV that is getting more and more popular and RFID chips in every ID-card...

Who cares. If someone goes missing, Apple can give that info to the cops and probably save the person's life

"nothing to hide, nothing to fear" should not be an excuse.  Wanting something to be private doesn't necessarily mean it's something illegal or to be ashamed of, it's a basic right.  One we're losing a little bit at a time..

Oh no, they might see me go from my flat, to the store, to my girlfriends house!

Good job I don't have an iPhone... just an iPod :)

Isn't it possible that this isn't an evil plan from the government/ apple to track your every move? I feel like there's a very strong possibility that this information could be used to track signal strength in various locations for different locations. Or maybe they're coming for you. Either could be true.

This is just Apple being lazy in their implementation of location functionality in iOS, it's very useful for the system to have a long history of where you've been so that it can create a statistically sound guess as to where you are now even without GPS enabled.

So the ancient bloodlines are using technology to track their sheep? What a huge surprise

This technology has existed for at least 50 years. They're called "electromagnetic waves".

Anyone with basic math and physics can tell where you are if you are broadcasting. The iPhone keeping the data locally is more convenient and more helpful

Telecoms probably have their own log of this stuff as well.
Dudes could make a device or app that tracks people regardless of encryption.

This isn't a breach of privacy, it's a wake up to the 21st century

" APPLE IS SKYNET! "

If you use a Sprint phone with a stock rom CarrierIQ is tracking every keystroke.

The problem isn't exclusive to Apple or AT&T.

I'd first start talking about the prices they charge for their sub-par products which receive few new features every year before we begin talking about what else -isn't- cool about Apple.

I'm surprised this blew up the way it did recently. I watched a show like 6 months ago talking about the tech on iphones and chipped credit cards etc monitoring peoples locations. They've been talking about this tracking stuff for years for *alleged* security purposes with borders and airports etc.