History on the follow-up to the iPhone just die - and perhaps not for some time. In fact, it can trigger only a new wave of combinations of protection of personal information, and could even cause consumers to rethink the geocentric location services like Foursquare and GPS.
Apple is under fire from consumers and lawmakers both on the way in which its iPhone collects data. However, Apple continues to deny that his device is followed real location of the user. Nevertheless, the company is reducing the amount of data the device stores. The company also issued a Q & A of Apple on location data.
"Apple is followed not the location of your iPhone." Apple has never done and has no intention to ever do, the company a. "of mobile users with fast and accurate location information" while preserving their security and privacy raised very complex technical questions that are difficult to communicate in a bite sound.
Apple unlocks the Message
Very meticulously, Apple has taken the time to explain that the iPhone is not logging location of the user. Rather, it maintains a database of Wi - Fi hot spots and the towers of the cell to the current location of the user, some of which may be more than 100 kilometres of the iPhone, to help the device quickly and to calculate with precision its location when requested.
The company explained that calculate the location of a phone just GPS satellite data can take several minutes. The iPhone can reduce this time to a few seconds using Wi - Fi hot spot and the data from cell-tower to quickly find GPS satellites and even triangulate his location with just Wi - Fi point hot and cell-tower GPS data is not availableas in the Interior or in basements.
"" These calculations are performed live on the iPhone with a crowd of point hot data source database and cell-tower Wi - Fi which are generated by tens of millions of iPhone by sending the hotspots of Wi - Fi near geocoded locations and the towers of the cell in an anonymous and encrypted to Apple form "".the company said. Stores Apple plans to issue an update of free software to reduce the amount of data the iPhone, and once that location services are switched off, the phone will be remove hotspot and the cell tower information.
Will be Google, followed by Microsoft?
Apple is proactively on this issue, but it is not just Apple devices that store this type of information. Michael Gartenberg, Gartner analyst, said that all smartphones on the market do the same thing - and so are wireless telecommunications. This is not a new issue, he said. This is how long the information is maintained. Apple is now fixing this issue.
"This highlights the issue of the location and privacy and what types of information phones are sent back." "This is not just phones, it also applications in phones and whether this will cause some type of reaction of consumers against certain types of geocentric services," said Gartenberg.
"A lot of geocentric services is transmission lots of information about you that many consumers may not get account, such as here where you live, where you work, where you play, you associate with, and where spend you money.""," he added. "Who can be a huge value to marketing specialists, but can certainly become a nightmare of the privacy of consumers."
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