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Apple Inc. wrote:CUPERTINO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Apple would like to respond to the questions we have recently received about the gathering and use of location information by our devices.
1. Why is Apple tracking the location of my iPhone?
Apple is not tracking the location of your iPhone. Apple has never done so and has no plans to ever do so.
2. Then why is everyone so concerned about this?
Providing mobile users with fast and accurate location information while preserving their security and privacy has raised some very complex technical issues which are hard to communicate in a soundbite. Users are confused, partly because the creators of this new technology (including Apple) have not provided enough education about these issues to date.
3. Why is my iPhone logging my location?
The iPhone is not logging your location. Rather, it’s maintaining a database of Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers around your current location, some of which may be located more than one hundred miles away from your iPhone, to help your iPhone rapidly and accurately calculate its location when requested. Calculating a phone’s location using just GPS satellite data can take up to several minutes. iPhone can reduce this time to just a few seconds by using Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower data to quickly find GPS satellites, and even triangulate its location using just Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower data when GPS is not available (such as indoors or in basements). These calculations are performed live on the iPhone using a crowd-sourced database of Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower data that is generated by tens of millions of iPhones sending the geo-tagged locations of nearby Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers in an anonymous and encrypted form to Apple.
4. Is this crowd-sourced database stored on the iPhone?
The entire crowd-sourced database is too big to store on an iPhone, so we download an appropriate subset (cache) onto each iPhone. This cache is protected but not encrypted, and is backed up in iTunes whenever you back up your iPhone. The backup is encrypted or not, depending on the user settings in iTunes. The location data that researchers are seeing on the iPhone is not the past or present location of the iPhone, but rather the locations of Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers surrounding the iPhone’s location, which can be more than one hundred miles away from the iPhone. We plan to cease backing up this cache in a software update coming soon (see Software Update section below).
5. Can Apple locate me based on my geo-tagged Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower data?
No. This data is sent to Apple in an anonymous and encrypted form. Apple cannot identify the source of this data.
6. People have identified up to a year’s worth of location data being stored on the iPhone. Why does my iPhone need so much data in order to assist it in finding my location today?
This data is not the iPhone’s location data-it is a subset (cache) of the crowd-sourced Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower database which is downloaded from Apple into the iPhone to assist the iPhone in rapidly and accurately calculating location. The reason the iPhone stores so much data is a bug we uncovered and plan to fix shortly (see Software Update section below). We don’t think the iPhone needs to store more than seven days of this data.
7. When I turn off Location Services, why does my iPhone sometimes continue updating its Wi-Fi and cell tower data from Apple’s crowd-sourced database?
It shouldn’t. This is a bug, which we plan to fix shortly (see Software Update section below).
8. What other location data is Apple collecting from the iPhone besides crowd-sourced Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower data?
Apple is now collecting anonymous traffic data to build a crowd-sourced traffic database with the goal of providing iPhone users an improved traffic service in the next couple of years.
9. Does Apple currently provide any data collected from iPhones to third parties?
We provide anonymous crash logs from users that have opted in to third-party developers to help them debug their apps. Our iAds advertising system can use location as a factor in targeting ads. Location is not shared with any third party or ad unless the user explicitly approves giving the current location to the current ad (for example, to request the ad locate the Target store nearest them).
10. Does Apple believe that personal information security and privacy are important?
Yes, we strongly do. For example, iPhone was the first to ask users to give their permission for each and every app that wanted to use location. Apple will continue to be one of the leaders in strengthening personal information security and privacy.
Software Update
Sometime in the next few weeks Apple will release a free iOS software update that:
reduces the size of the crowd-sourced Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower database cached on the iPhone,
ceases backing up this cache, and
deletes this cache entirely when Location Services is turned off.
In the next major iOS software release the cache will also be encrypted on the iPhone.
streetlifestyle wrote:have an ipad 1 on 4.2.1 guys. how to jailbreak this thing now? i outta d game tooo long
SRASC wrote:A quick question, have a friend who has an iPhone 3GS on 4.0.1. Wants to know, if he could update to 4.3.2 & have the unlock & jailbreak. I'll admit I'm not as verse on iPhone 3GS unlocks/jailbreaks & their current situation at this time.
M_2NR wrote:SRASC wrote:A quick question, have a friend who has an iPhone 3GS on 4.0.1. Wants to know, if he could update to 4.3.2 & have the unlock & jailbreak. I'll admit I'm not as verse on iPhone 3GS unlocks/jailbreaks & their current situation at this time.
http://mahmood1.com/ipod_and_iphone.php
Use the ones made by pwnagetool. aka this one
I just emailed him to confirm if it doesnt update the baseband to 06.15, as the sn0wbreeze ones do. so DONT use the sn0wbreeze ones. if u want u can wait til i get a reply from him.
After he RESTORE (using shift + restore) to this custom firmware, get SAM and activate it in case he gets the battery drain.
TBH, 4.2.1 working excellent and they are saying 4.3.x has even worse battery life than 4.2.x so... i dont think ill be updating.
Good luck!
mojosodope wrote:if he's still on 4.0/4.0.1,4.02 he can update to 4.3.2 and preserve his 01.59.00 baseband with the latest pwnage tool. If he has already updated his baseband theres no way to lower and the dev team has said an ultrasn0w unlock for the higher basebands may never be released. I for one missed the unlock window for the global unlock and now I have 4 iPhone 4's, baseband preserved but I still want to get rid of the errs of jailbreaking. Waiting till next week of any word of remote unlock as there is a rumor that the remote world wide unlock may return this coming wednesday. If it doesn't I'ma just grab a couple Rebel micro sims since Gevey is illegal basically.
M_2NR wrote:thing is... the latest ultrasn0w supports 4.3.2 now (1.2.2) so i dunno why u bothering with that fixer
Just get the latest ultrasn0w and yuh orn bud.
ultrasn0w update newsmojosodope wrote:if he's still on 4.0/4.0.1,4.02 he can update to 4.3.2 and preserve his 01.59.00 baseband with the latest pwnage tool. If he has already updated his baseband theres no way to lower and the dev team has said an ultrasn0w unlock for the higher basebands may never be released. I for one missed the unlock window for the global unlock and now I have 4 iPhone 4's, baseband preserved but I still want to get rid of the errs of jailbreaking. Waiting till next week of any word of remote unlock as there is a rumor that the remote world wide unlock may return this coming wednesday. If it doesn't I'ma just grab a couple Rebel micro sims since Gevey is illegal basically.
may be if u read his post you will see it is /not/ an iPhone 4 but a 3GS. Hard luck on the i4's though. Around page 121 Bezman did warn us to chill our willies when ordering an iPhone from the US and expecting unlocks.
Parvin wrote:@ M_2NR
Didn't have a choice as we discussed via pm so now I got the iphone up and running.
Running the iOS 4.3.2 and sad to say BB 6.15
But, it works none the less.
Used redsn0w for jailbreaking and then used the ultrasn0w to unlock followed by the SAM instructions you linked me with.
Problem is, I read that the ultrasn0w fixer was just released but when I try to get it via Cydia I get this error;
'Did Not Find Repository
The indicated repository could not be found. This could be because you are trying to add a legacy installer repository (these are not supported). Also, this interface is only capable of working with exact repository URLS.'
rodfarva wrote:Anyone check out EA Games offerings on Iphone/Ipod touch?
Fight Night & NBA Jam Especially....quite impressive
mojosodope wrote:M_2NR wrote:mojo, yuh repeating things posted already dan
lol my bad man this thread have so many damn posts I didn't read through it, was just trying to help the guy out, btw do you think there's a market down here for unlocking iphone 4's?
Parvin wrote:Kool scene on the feedback guys.
So I wonder if they working on a fix for the GPS issue?
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