Fred Brewin's Blog » Uncategorized http://www.fredbrewin.com/blog Wed, 20 Apr 2011 18:21:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 iPhone Location Tracking http://www.fredbrewin.com/blog/2011/04/iphone-location-tracking/ http://www.fredbrewin.com/blog/2011/04/iphone-location-tracking/#comments Wed, 20 Apr 2011 18:18:01 +0000 admin http://www.fredbrewin.com/blog/?p=75 As has been widely reported today, iPhones have been logging location and timestamps in a file that can easily be accessed on the computer the iPhone is backed up to. This doesn’t seem to pose a massive privacy/security issue since the data never appears to leave the user’s iPhone and the computer it is connected to, but it is understandably getting a lot of attention.

Personally, I’m quite pleased this data exists. I’ve been tracking my location with Google Latitude since it was made available with iOS 4 but this seems to provide an easier mechanism to visualise it. Take a look at my movements in the UK since August last year:

Map of the UK with location superimposed

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Newspaper article featuring my profile picture

What a crazy world. Thanks to Annicka Lundin for letting me know. If anyone wants to send me a physical copy I’d be most grateful.

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Original Photo

Photo with bike removed

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