Is Apple’s iPhone spying on you?
Like most Mac aficionados I enjoy using Apple products because of what they do for me. However, Apple’s paranoia about it’s products is now spilling over into gathering information about you and your whereabouts with your iPhone via the iPhone technologies used by developers.
This article “Dear iPhone Users: Your Apps are Spying on You” states that because of the GPS part of the iPhone your phone is sending data about you to someone.
Who is asking for the data and what data is being sent? The application developer? Apple? Marketers? Your government?
Once data is collected, anyone can get it somehow, whether legal or illegal means.
We just don’t know.
As I quote from the post “For the most part, the data being recorded is anonymous and helps the developers make better apps. The problem is that, as of today, there’s no way to know which apps are the safe ones.”
So, do iPhone developers needs more “transparency?”
What are your thoughts? How much information is too much?
