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Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Andrews <andrews@spam.net> Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone Subject: Interesting post about Apple spying on its customers Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2024 05:20:07 -0000 (UTC) Organization: BWH Usenet Archive (https://usenet.blueworldhosting.com) Message-ID: <vfhu61$2f4i$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2024 05:20:07 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com; logging-data="81042"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blueworldhosting.com" User-Agent: tin/1.6.2-20030910 ("Pabbay") (UNIX) (CYGWIN_NT-10.0-WOW/2.8.0(0.309/5/3) (i686)) Hamster/2.0.2.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:Y5wrmwwqcyEKzo+cVKwyjYgCcxo= sha256:zENCZzuoAI0UlAPS6yHFUMY1yJuwNreOViIaAZDHScA= sha1:127bWB7JqWBNmbN/8QlQzrkGc4E= sha256:yjw4B8undrQKoTZGZA2JXk2uMonjjHYL4xZ6JBwUyiM= Bytes: 4206 Lines: 57 The post below is not from me, but it was posted on Android when people (rightly so) complained that Google made Precise Location Services the default in Android 15. Most people don't have a clue how to turn it off, so, for them, it's permanent Google spyware - which - for idiots - it is - because they can't figure out how to turn it off (which is why Google did it). But what's interesting about this post for you is what it says about Apple. <https://www.novabbs.com/computers/article-flat.php?id=55113&group=comp.mobile.android#55113> ====< post is below in its entirety >==== I think that with Google you have to assume that if they can spy, they will. And they will lie about it. It's what they do. They didn't make Android out of sheer generosity. It's part of their "all spying, all the time" business model. Cellphones these days are semi-kiosk devices, not intended to be controlled. I installed a program to give me more control. I've forgotten the name now. (Netguard, maybe?) The list of formerly invisible Android processes that it showed me was endless, but most of them have meaningless names. Only an Android developer could make sense of it. You should assume that if your phone is powered on then you're wearing a tracking collar. Whether it's phone towers or satellite GPS, they're tracking your movements. If using a cellphone is part of your lifestyle (you leave it powered on, send and receive text messages, etc) then you're the same as the wild animals with radio collars that biologists track. You can't have cellphone lifestyle and privacy. Do you remember the "wifi slurping" scandal several years back? Google was picking up and storing any tidbits they could get from unencrypted wifi as their streetview vans drove around. Most wifi back then was unencrypted. Google heartily denied it, until the specific software was found that they wrote to do the job! If I remember correctly, I think the software developer came forward. It seems odd that Google would bother to collect random tidbits from specific houses, but the magic of surveillance is in the data crunching. Every tiny bit of data they can get just adds to the data they can analyze. Baldfaced lying is routine with tech companies. They don't face any real punishment for lying, stealing and spying. Apple are no better than Google. They've been caught spying multiple times. Some years ago there was a California journalist who found precise location data going back several weeks, stored in a plain text file on his iPhone. He used the data to create a map, to show how easy it is to track a person's life. Apple also lies about the iPhone privacy settings: https://gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-analytics-tracking-even-when-off-app-store-1849757558 The only difference is that most people using iPhones believe that Apple is a special angel created by Lord Jobs and they actually want to be tracked by their phone. It makes them feel safe.