[wellylug] 5 reasons to avoid iPhone 3G - Free Software Foundation

Phillip Hutchings phillip.hutchings at sitharus.com
Fri Jul 11 22:57:52 NZST 2008


>> iPhone exposes your whereabouts and provides ways for others to track
>> you without your knowledge.
>
> Don't know details on that.  If it's what I'm thinking of, isn't that
> a federal law in the USA now that phones must do that?

It's absolute rubbish. The OS pops up a "Let app <x> know your
location?" alert _every single time_ your location is asked for, or at
least it does for me on an iPod Touch (and then puts me in the middle
of Kansas, but there you go). Check out twitterific for an example of
this.
-- 
Phillip Hutchings
http://www.sitharus.com/



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