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thejosh

Atleast they will show you the data, unlike phone companies who hold all this data anyway.

Once you have a phone device with an active signal you are tracked, and that's just not being paranoid either.

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Example: Visualization of 6 months of cell phone data retention of a German politician:

http://www.zeit.de/datenschutz/malte-spitz-data-retention

But how much of the collected data do they show you? IMO services like this should be opt-in, rather than opt-out.

it's currently ios7 beta, i really hope they do it opt-in in the future.

The difference between ios7 and previous versions is not that ios7 is logging. It's that ios7 is telling you that it's logging and what it is logging. Location Services always worked this way - it just wasn't exposed to the user.

And perhaps when it's no longer a developer only beta - with all the additional caveats, agreements, monitoring and instrumentation which that entails - it will be.

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