iPhone Tracking Discussion

Pete Warden and Alasdair Allan talking about how they discovered the existence of the tracking database on the iPhone, and what it might mean. Also how they went about exploring and visualising the data once they knew it was there, and show how it could be used to track individuals movements over time.

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  Science & Technology

[DefenceSpeech]

Tracking the movement of people is the future for so many industries that sadly it doesn't appear as though it will be avoidable even if you decide not to carry around credit/identification cards, smart phones, laptops, etc. Your movement is being tracked in other ways via satellite imagery, the GPS systems built into cars and street level CCTV's that are plaguing places like the U.K. The most frightening aspect is that nobody seems to care, they just accept that's how the world is becoming.

[TheGodlessGuitarist]

"To provide a way to locate you if GPS is unavailable, and to more quickly locate a GPS signal when one is around..."

A year's worth of data for dead reckonning? bollocks! Having worked on many embedded projects also using GPS I know that every app's data is accounted for in the design of the system, so something like this couldnt have just crept in! This was a management decision at least! You don't just collect large volumes of such extremely personal data for nothing fun!

[alison lapoint]

Hint Washington state

[Comings Oon]

There are benefits to storing the data in plain form. Instead of only governments knowing someone's movements, average folks can too (with permission of course). Sure, this can be used for good or bad purposes, but in today's world governments are not less likely to commits wrong acts than an average citizen and in some cases more likely. Overall, this balances the scales a little more in the favour of openness and transparency provided someone volunteers their phone data of course.

[Invisibleorgana23]

This a law suit material

Why nobody...?

[Silva Peterson]

scary!

[33smojo]

untrackerd in cydia!!! cleans consolidate.db file with a daemon.

[ruralkiller]

go figure right!! im sure android phone users are in the same boat !!

[cinnastax91]

Ever since the govt planned 9/11 and blamed it on "terrorists", they knew people would figure it out and want to kick out the criminals at the highest levels of power. The govt has put these "Fusion Centers" and passed the NDAA legislation to protect THEMSELVES from revolution, but they have all along said these anti-terrorism measures were to "protect the people". Wrong, it's to protect themselves from the people when the people figure out 9/11 was all the govt's.

[bl4ckmt4l]

I don't get what this means though. So they're tracking my whereabouts because of my iphone....but what does this mean for me? They know I jacked off to some guys picture on Grindr than hooked up with him? I don't care lol

[johnny usaf]

My friend was selling weed and he told someone to meet them to give it to them and the cops found out by tracking there private info and got him locked up.

[johnny usaf]

Wtf these guys are soo

Boring