Apple, Users Of Google's Mobile Phone To Secretly Monitor And Data Download

Is spying on your iPhone or Android? Most likely, according to a recent analysis of documents and data from The Wall Street Journal.


According to the newspaper, the Apple iPhone and smartphones with Google's Android "regularly transmit their location to Apple and Google," as part of attempts by corporations to build huge databases that allow them to identify where you are.

Why would they do that? The easy answer is capitalism, who want access to a market of 2.9 billion dollars on the basis of location-based services, reports the Wall Street Journal - a market that is expected to explode over of $ 8,000,000,000 in just three years.

But the impact on privacy - and the potential that this information could be executed on a real cause for concern.

According to the WSJ, which based its report on research conducted by the security analyst and onetime hacker Samy Kamkar, transmit data from point to Google Android phones several times per hour. The devices record their location every few seconds.

Mobile phones to transmit vital information about nearby Wi-Fi, as the name of the location, signal strength. They also return a single phone number that will surely reveal who owns the phone.

Apple officials, in turn, released their iPhone and equipment iPad "from time to time" meeting place for information, GPS coordinates, letter Reps. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and Joe Barton (R-Texas) 's last year.

In essence, the portable electronic devices are machines that follow the manufacturers use to collect information about you without your authorization and may be in violation of the trust of the Constitution of privacy.

Markey said in a statement, said: "Apple needs to protect personal location information on its users to ensure that the iPhone is not a iTracker."

"Keep safe?" If the purchase of an electronic device will result in automatic assignment of constitutional rights?

There is no indication that buyers of these products has been informed in advance that they would be used to track their comings and goings. A better solution would be to prohibit the monitoring of users' personal iPhone and Android in the first place.