iOS 4.3.3 Out Soon to Fix Tracking Issues
May 2, 2011 | Andy Boxall
The team over at BGR have heard another version of iOS 4.3 will be coming to an iPhone near you soon, and it’s primary reason-for-being is to fix that naughty tracking ‘bug’. It was casually mentioned by Apple that we should expect a software fix at some point, when they officially responded to the tracking allegations last week.
According to the leak, iOS 4.3.3 will stop the backup of the location database to your computer, reduce the size of said database and delete it entirely of you turn off Location Services. Additionally, the update will bring some improvements to the battery life along with some iPod bug fixes too.
That little list should quieten down anyone shouting ‘privacy invasion!’ since the discovery of the location database. It’s expected out within the next couple of weeks.
Who cares that Apple is tracking me. I have nothing to hide.
@Brian
It has nothing to do with a person having anything to hide.
It is about what is right and what is wrong. What is legal and what is illegal. Apple is treading a thin line with this.
For starters there is a potential for a violation of the constitution. Monitoring a person in this way is illegal unless there is a warrant.
We cannot just pick and choose who and when the rules apply.
Otherwise what is next…law enforcement can just walk into your house at any time and start looking around? Or maybe just stop you on the street or pull you over for no reason just because they want to investigate you? Why not if you have nothing to hide? Perhaps we will all have to wear ankle bracelets like the house arrest criminals do? Then police need not waste time with questioning a person for a particular crime because they can see if you were near. Or even worse you were in the area during the that time so you are suspect.
Ridiculous I know, but it isn’t much different.
Aside from the legal issues what happens if this info was breached and someone was to get their hands on it? Say someone lase than moral?
They could find a pattern of where you go, when you are at or near home and when you are not. Great information for a criminal to know.
There are many reasons this is wrong. If Apple was to have let people know and let them opt out it would be a different story.