Update Your iPhone NOW To Stop It From Tracking Your Location

Apple today released iOS 4.3.3 which effectively addresses "Locationgate," a recent scandal where Apple was accused of tracking iPhone users.

Sync your phone with iTunes right now to get it, then turn off "Location Services" in Settings if you want the phone-tracking to end.

Of course, turning off Location Services also kills location awareness in all of your apps, too.

If you don't turn off Location Services, your iPhone will now contain a much smaller database of location data anyway.

Apple claims to have never tracked users, only using the location data to improve call latency and service.

Apple also called certain aspects of location-caching on the iPhone "a bug."

Regardless, Apple decided to give in and make the location database smaller, even though Apple claimed the databases were anonymous and encrypted. The biggest change in this update is that your location data will no longer back up to iTunes whenever you sync your iPhone.

As officially announced by Apple, 4.3.3 (4.2.8 for Verizon iPhones) will include:

• The update will no longer backup location data in iTunes
• The size of the location database will be much smaller, only containing data for the last seven days
• When Location Services are turned off, the iPhone will not record location data, and the location database will be deleted.

Head over to iTunes now to grab the latest software update which addresses some controversial issues.

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Stop Web Ads From Tracking Users? Dream On

The Federal Trade Commission has suggested the need for a new do-not-track list that would allow users to opt out of being tracked online.

The proposal lends weight to the Do Not Track project created by a group of Stanford researchers earlier this month. Although some Web browsers like Internet Explorer have features to help users remain invisible as they travel from site to site, technology is an imperfect solution.

Jonathan Mayer, a Fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, explains that blocking software requires constant vigilance on the part of Web users and the folks who maintain blacklists of banned sites, and that it blocks otherwise useful third-party tools. Instead, Do Not Track proposes that browser makers add features to let users signal to Web sites that they don't want to be tracked. Web sites would then honor the request. The technology to do so is quite simple, and Mozilla is already considering it for Firefox.

But the business barriers will be almost impossible to overcome. Web sites who depend on user tracking for advertising dollars aren't going to opt out voluntarily. That means a law is required, like the one that created the Do Not Call registry. Even the FTC admitted that it's powerless to implement its recommendation without legislation from Congress. And you can bet that big Internet advertising companies like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft will lobby hard against any such rules.

Technical solutions like InPrivate Filtering in IE and TrackerBlock aren't perfect, but they're available today. If you're concerned about the information being gathered as you surf the Web, use these tools now and hope that Congress eventually passes stricter privacy laws.

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• Google Settles Over Buzz, Will Establish $8.5 Million Fund To Promote Privacy Education
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Stop Web Ads From Tracking Users? Dream On

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Stopping Web Ads From Tracking Users Is A Nice Dream

The Federal Trade Commission has suggested the need for a new do-not-track list that would allow users to opt out of being tracked online.

The proposal lends weight to the Do Not Track project created by a group of Stanford researchers earlier this month. Although some Web browsers like Internet Explorer have features to help users remain invisible as they travel from site to site, technology is an imperfect solution.

Jonathan Mayer, a Fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, explains that blocking software requires constant vigilance on the part of Web users and the folks who maintain blacklists of banned sites, and that it blocks otherwise useful third-party tools. Instead, Do Not Track proposes that browser makers add features to let users signal to Web sites that they don't want to be tracked. Web sites would then honor the request. The technology to do so is quite simple, and Mozilla is already considering it for Firefox.

But the business barriers will be almost impossible to overcome. Web sites who depend on user tracking for advertising dollars aren't going to opt out voluntarily. That means a law is required, like the one that created the Do Not Call registry. Even the FTC admitted that it's powerless to implement its recommendation without legislation from Congress. And you can bet that big Internet advertising companies like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft will lobby hard against any such rules.

Technical solutions like InPrivate Filtering in IE and TrackerBlock aren't perfect, but they're available today. If you're concerned about the information being gathered as you surf the Web, use these tools now and hope that Congress eventually passes stricter privacy laws.

Join the conversation about this story »

See Also:

• How To Stop Creepy Ads From Following You From Site To Site
• Google Settles Over Buzz, Will Establish $8.5 Million Fund To Promote Privacy Education
• Parents Aren't Worried About Facebook Privacy, Partly Because They Don't Understand It

Stopping Web Ads From Tracking Users Is A Nice Dream

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Experimental Real-Time Location Tracking Comes To Google Latitude On Android

Google has just released a series of updates for their Google Maps Android application. Two of these updates are useful: Place page reviews and the ability to filter search results. But one of them is really interesting: real-time location updating i

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