Apple giving out your iPhone fingerprints and location
The company says it may now collect, use, transfer, and disclose our iPhone, iPad or computer identifier and location for any purpose if we opt into iTunes.
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Harvesting phone and laptop fingerprints for its database
Google says the user’s device sends a request to its location server with a list of all MAC addresses currently visible to it. Does that include yours?
Trip down memory lane
There is a difference between understanding something theoretically and right in the gut.
What does a MAC address tell you?
Mapping the attendees at a conference to home addresses even when they’ve never consented to any such tracking is not going to be hard if you’ve gone to the trouble of scanning every street in every city in the country.
Does the non-content trump the content?
Google knew about the collection of MAC addresses, and has never said otherwise or stated that their collection of these addresses was done accidently.
Title 18 – Part II – Chapter 206 – § 3121
§ 3121. General prohibition on pen register and trap and trace device use; exception
Latitude privacy policy doesn't fess up to what Google stores
Simply untrue: “If you hide in Latitude, we don't store your location.”
Rethink things in light of Google's Gstumbler report
The report indicates Google has been purposely collecting a lot of information its defenders couldn't have imagined.
Gstumbler tells all
Google's new report on its activities states, “All available MAC addresses are… written to disk for frames transmitted over both encrypted and unencrypted wireless networks.”
It is all Metcalfe’s fault
But the problem of network addresses is “really hairy when dealing with a high mobility environment”