Did You Know Your Apple iPhone and Google Android Are Tracking You?
Your Google Android and/or Apple iPhone is keeping tabs on your every movement, then reporting your position back to corporate servers where a profile of where you tend to shop, eat, leave businesses and return home is permanently stored on servers
Every day, you wake up to roll out of bed. You kiss your wife or husband, throw on some clothes and walk to your bathroom. On the way, you turn on your cell phone and 45 minutes take off out the front door.
At this moment, thousands of miles above your head, a satellite starts receiving messages. They are coming from your cell phone. The satellite sends these messages to a huge company, named Google or Apple. Within these companies, are powerful computers and servers, which track you as a little dot on an entire map of the world. It’s like GPS system, with the phone as your GPS and you as the vehicle. Using mapping software, these computers track your exact longitude and latitude coordinates, taking time to document when and where you exist addresses, stop, places of business and other private matters. These coordinates and locations are then permanently stored on their computers, where the data can be mined to know your general day-to-day activities, places you frequent and potentially, one day, sold to a third party.
The Wall Street Journal is asking why?
Congressional leaders were informed of this new tracking, or treking, software and are very alarmed.On Wednesday, United States House Rep. Markey sent a follow-up letter to Apple
asking why the company is storing customer-location data on its phones.“Apple needs to safeguard the personal location information of its users to
ensure that an iPhone doesn’t become an iTrack,” Rep. Markey said in a
statement.
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Author: Bren Langford
Born and raised in SoCal, Bren Langford is currently a student, lifeguard and lifestyle editor for ChristWire Campus Weekly.
3:39 pm
This was all foretold in the book of Revelations.
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3:49 pm
You know this is bad, but we could use this to “give” phones and laptops to people in lesser countries. We could sell them sub-par tech for cheap and then keep track of them via GPS.
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3:53 pm
I bet Osama Bin Laden needs a Google Android right now!
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12:25 am
The way you say Google Android makes it seem that you think that Google owns the Android OS. Logically, this would suggest that you are high off your ass. This is because Android is distributed under the GPL and Apache licences, both free licences. Google developed Android, but anyone is free to use it for their own.
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4:25 pm
Why should we keep a track of them?
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4:55 pm
I see the inspiration here. We can tag Mexicans and use GPS location services to round up the illegals. Even legal immigrants can be tagged and tracked. This could also be used to tell families where to avid when travelling.
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8:13 pm
And why track LEGAL immigrants?
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8:15 pm
Who said anything about Americans? I said track foreign dangers to our country. We help them out by giving them the gift of communication and at the same time, just keep tabs on people of interest.
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8:18 pm
And August is saying we should do the same with people who live here, i.e. legal immigrants. If you’re going to ‘keep tabs’ on people, it’s an all-or-nothing action, and if you don’t want to institute a policy on yourself, then don’t bother trying to justify it.
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8:41 pm
Sorry, I need to be clearer for those who went to trade school:
US citizens should not be tracked. Legal resident aliens should be tracked. Illegals should be tracked. I would also caucus the idea of tracking people who make less than a certain dollar amount and live in urban areas, as they are more likely to commit crimes.
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8:44 pm
So you want to track people you don’t like, right?
You just said that you want to track non-American born people, and people who make less than whatever number you consider to be ‘elite’ material. Your words, not mine.
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8:45 pm
I think that we should track the homogays to combat/prevent rapes.
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8:47 pm
Because there’s NEVER been a case of a straight man raping a woman, right? It’s ALWAYS the gays!
Just to let you know ‘Christian Intellectual’, that’s what we sane people call sarcasm.
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8:48 pm
No, if you were born in Australia or Sweden, immigrate legally and become a law abiding citizen, they have a constitutional right to not be tracked, and that is what this article is about. Personal freedoms should NOT be infringed upon.
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9:14 pm
That’s exactly what you’re doing though, infringing upon the privacy rights of people. You included people who don’t make a certain amount of money, and you’re excluding them from their rights.
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9:22 pm
Maybe if they wanted more rights they should make more money.
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9:28 pm
Exactly BB, once again your moral pointed wisdom shines above the Liberal Naysayer.
If they want more rights, maybe they should finish high school, stop living on welfare, move out of their parents’ house and contribute to the economy, don’t shoot people in drive by’s, don’t waste everyone’s money on trade school.
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9:40 pm
So people who don’t have jobs are just failures who dropped out of high school? That they need to conform to your ridiculous standards that not even YOU go by? People should BUY their GOD-GIVEN RIGHTS? You do realize just how that’s the VERY opposite of what the founders of this land wanted, right?
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9:46 pm
No, that is not what I said. You are part of the liberal naysayers who take peoples freedoms away everyday. I only proposed a caucus about the issue. Maybe if you did not go to trade school you would know what that means.
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9:59 pm
You say that liberals want to take people’s freedom away, and yet you JUST SAID that if they want more rights, that they should have an extremely successful career.
Tell me, how are liberals taking away freedom if you’re suggesting that people BUY their freedom?
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10:03 pm
I’m not sure who you are taking to at this point, but my point is that we have the right to tell foreign terrorists what to do. If we want to track them down via cell phone, I think that is great. I don’t see a problem with that. They have no American rights and are potential terrorists. We have every right to find them and this is a new form of preemptive striking.
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10:09 pm
So your idea is to treat everyone like a criminal and tell the rest of the world to do what we say?
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5:00 pm
How about we stick a homing beacon up your ass and then blow it up?
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5:54 pm
Why are you such a violent person? I have said nothing wrong and illegal. We have a right to keep tabs on potential terrorists and its a smart way to make a determination in case we need to strike.
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6:09 pm
You’re a fuckwad. Go fuck your uncle up his ass.
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8:14 pm
Then why don’t we throw you in a camp? Obviously you pose a threat to people, and you want to use terror to convince people to follow your logic. You’re a terrorist, flat-out.
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4:00 pm
I think this is a false flag raised by the Liberals. The congressional representatives inquiring are Democrats, not tea party conservatives. This makes me suspicious.
David Barton, who was on Glenn Beks program quite often, recently spoke out on the socialism inherent in a neutral interwebs.
“This is what the Pilgrims brought in, the Puritans brought in, this is free market mentality. Net Neutrality sounds really good, but it is socialism on the Internet.”
Read more: http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2045531/wing-extremist-opposes-net-neutrality#ixzz1KNkDbrpV
I think these communist ideodogs are trying to block the God given plan for a capitalist system on the interwebs. Sure some people won’t see this as fair, but David also said:
“What you want is justice, you don’t want fairness. Fairness is subjective, what I think is fair, what you think, what happened to Jesus wasn’t fair. That’s right, but we needed justice so God did that for us… This is really, I’m going to use the word wicked stuff, and I don’t use that word very often, but this is wicked stuff.”
“I mean, if Skype uses eighty-five percent of the server space, you can’t charge them eighty-five percent of the fees because that would be unfair. And if Skype says ‘well, we don’t want to pay that,’ and you say ‘well, you’re off our server,’ no you can’t do that. You can’t kick them off just because they won’t pay.”
“I mean, this is crazy stuff. This is redistribution of wealth through the Internet and it really is redistribution. This is socialism on the Internet.”
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4:59 pm
Good point, why should I pay the same for my limited browsing as foreigners who upload and download stolen movies and rock music to their families back home?
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4:08 pm
This is why I use the Java phones by Sun.
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5:00 pm
my palm treo 180 works just fine.
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4:34 pm
They don’t report your location to be tracked, only to give you more relevant ads. There is no need to resort to WebOS or, dare I say it… Java.
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4:34 pm
Licensed Nurse (LN?), we should keep track of them because they could be future trouble. How great if we can keep tabs on every person in Kenya or Syria? That would save us trouble and protect them as well. It’s a burgeoning idea but if we do have a way to track third world people and they rely on our phones for communication, it will greatly reduce our need for military over there. If any start trouble we can just strike them down with GPS guided missiles and not need soldiers.
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4:57 pm
“If any start trouble we can just strike them down with GPS guided missiles and not need soldiers.”
I have a better idea. How about we drop a bomb on your house?
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8:13 pm
Keep guessing what LN means.
How about we keep tabs on you? Oh wait, you don’t like that. That’s all you’re about, take what you don’t like and force it on others with you at the controls.
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8:27 pm
Liberal Nutjob ?
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8:30 pm
Nope. Considering your name is an oxymoron, it’s no surprised.
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7:40 pm
Clare, do you think it is okay for Google or Apple to track your whereabouts, build a map about your daily routine and then sell it to third party buyers?
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9:24 pm
LN, you’re being dense. I said nothing about including poor Americans. I said foreign people, especially the ones prone to terror in poor third world countries.
If they are innocent, fine, they get a cheap phone and way to communicate with their friends. If they are terrorists, we have them mapped out and can easily wipe them off the Earth and we’re all safer. Sounds fine to me.
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9:42 pm
It’s a violation of various rights strewn about the world. The US has no right to violate the privacy of any person, least the ones outside of it’s own damn country.
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9:47 pm
You would protect Osama Bin Laden’s privacy?
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10:02 pm
You would force people to sacrifice their freedom of privacy and instigate a world-wide riot just to hunt down a handful of people, who’s location we already know about, and who would easily find a way to communicate with people aside from phones?
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9:50 pm
Who is to say we do not have a right to do so. We can bomb any nation we want and we can surely track them too, especially the third world ones.
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10:00 pm
Uh, the rest of the fucking world? I’m pretty sure that if someone stirs shit up, the others are going to do something about it.
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10:08 pm
“You say that liberals want to take people’s freedom away, and yet you JUST SAID that if they want more rights, that they should have an extremely successful career.
Tell me, how are liberals taking away freedom if you’re suggesting that people BUY their freedom?”
Use the trade school library computer (if they have one with internets) to look up the meaning of caucus.
Yes, liberals are the freedom stealing party.
They tax us taking away our right to moneys that we earn.
They want to take away the right to bear arms.
They tore our nation apart so they could continue to own slaves.
There are countless more examples…
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10:16 pm
Conservatives want to put higher taxes those with lower incomes to spare the ones with higher incomes.
Conservatives keep dredging up history that doesn’t apply to today and act as if things have remained the same since. It hasn’t, at some point the ideas of democrats and republicans ended up flipping, so today’s republicans were yesterday’s democrats.
Conservatives want to force America into situations that we have no right to be in to police the world.
Not only that, but the average level of intelligence of a conservative is much lower than a liberal, you keep referring to the internet as ‘internets’, as well as refusing to validate their claims.
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10:23 pm
Um, no, we want a fair tax. Why should I get taxed at 38% when someone who makes half of what I make gets taxed at 22%?
“so today’s republicans were yesterday’s democrats.”
That’s crazy talk.
“Conservatives want to force America into situations that we have no right to be in to police the world.”
You mean Korea, Vietnam, Somalia, Sarajevo, Beirut, lybia? Oh wait, that was democrats?
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10:30 pm
This class warfare launched by Obama is pure communism.
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10:34 pm
Because you make more than him? It stands to reason that the person isn’t going to be able to pay as much, and considering how much tax cuts have been made for the rich by conservatives, you can’t say that liberals are worse.
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10:43 pm
LN said:
“Because you make more than him? It stands to reason that the person isn’t going to be able to pay as much, and considering how much tax cuts have been made for the rich by conservatives, you can’t say that liberals are worse.”
Did you fail math to? If we both pay 25% and I make double I still pay double.
But if I make more and pay a higher percentage, then I pay triple-quadruple.
DO you know what a tax cut is? I used to get taxed 44%, conservatives lowered it to 38%. Tell me how that is not fair. And im retired, those taxes come out of my investment interest. How is that helping anyone? Taxing my retirement savings I was careful enough to buid?
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10:48 pm
Well, someone’s gotta get screwed over in this country, and it’s either the people who can afford it, or those who can’t.
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10:50 pm
Yeah, so you screw those that paid attention in school, did their homework, cut their hair, tried hard and succeeded.
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10:54 pm
Better than punishing those who ended up getting stepped on and screwed over. Not everyone who’s in the positions they’re in got that because they wanted to or because they dropped out. Do you know how many people are flipping burgers with college degrees?
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10:57 pm
College degrees in what? “communications or veterinary technician”?
Admit it you just want me to pay 3,4,5 times the percentage that other people pay. Just because I’m successful? That reduces the amount of money I can donate to charities I care about, like boy scouts and meals on wheels.
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11:04 pm
Not that much, but when you imply that degrees like that aren’t worth anything, you really shouldn’t be talking.
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10:25 pm
All I know is that the Mexicans that I see are always gabbing on the cellular phone, when they should be raking the leaves or vacuuming the floor. This would be like candy to them, and if they don’t want to be tracked, they can go back to Mexico.
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10:28 pm
Agreed iceman. It’s so funny how people on welfare and food stamps seem to be able to afford a 50$ a month data plan and a bejeweled case
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1:28 pm
Yes. I did know that. But do I care? No, I don’t. You know why? Because I don’t have any skeletons in my closet.
Oh, when I was looking for this on Google, look what I found! (specifically the ad):
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1:42 pm
I don’t speak leet. Does anyone have a translator?
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3:24 am
So let me reword that: Thnx for the deal with! But yeah Thnkx for spending the time to debate this, I really feel strongly about it and love reading extra on this topic.
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