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Alyssa Marie · 05-22-2014, 07:52 AM

I'm pretty sure it's just the 5 and newer as my friend checked in his 4 and it wasn't there.. I don't want to steal the credit.. A nice lady on TER posted that the saw this on cnn.. I just want to spread this to everyone..

If so.. Are your location services on?
Mine are. I like it for finding Starbucks, incase I can't find where I put my phone to use find my iPhone...
But check this out..

Click on settings
Click on privacy
Click on location services (if that's green, here comes the good part!)
Scroll down to the very bottom, click on system services
The bottom option again, frequent locations. Click on it.
Wait for it, wait for it....

Now clear that crap. Turn off your frequent locations. Tweak the privacy settings and sigh a sigh of relief that your phone didn't end up in the wrong persons hands.

Spread the word to anyone you think would like to know, ie: everyone.

LNK · 05-22-2014, 07:59 AM

Just another service brought to you by Big Brother . . . er, Apple.

I still find their 1984 Superbowl commercial hilariously ironic.

TinMan · 05-22-2014, 08:05 AM

This is the single most useful piece of information anyone has shared with me in awhile. I knew location services tracked every move I made...I just didn't know how easy it would be for someone to pick up my phone and see EXACTLY where I've been over the past month.

You may have saved me some grief. I owe you!

Alyssa Marie · 05-22-2014, 08:59 AM

LNK, to be fair many things track us on the daily. The bigger issue here is.. No one has to file a subpeona for this information. It's freaking right there. Clear as day. It was just on the national news last night.

Probably wouldn't have happened if apple & google continued their fighting with each other,, but.. It is what it is.

TinMan, I'm just grateful the person who posted this on the other board happened to be watching cnn and decided to share it. I kinda freaked when I saw it. It's a little creepy. I know the govt can see this at any time, but.. Geez. Now anyone can.

Just spread the word. I'm going to mention it at the end of every date for the next couple of months.

TinMan · 05-22-2014, 09:13 AM

I'm right there with you, Alyssa. I wasn't too much worried about information available to someone with a subpoena or mad hacking skills. I figure if it ever gets to that point, the war has been lost.

But I sure don't want to make it easy.

LNK · 05-22-2014, 01:46 PM

Oh, I'm not saying it's just Apple, or just Google, like you say, many track our movements, physical or virtual. It's learning to deal with it that's important.

Your post is valuable info for those with iProducts.

Brooke Wilde · 05-22-2014, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by LNK

Just another service brought to you by Big Brother . . . er, Apple.

I still find their 1984 Superbowl commercial hilariously ironic.

I thought that was a preview for a horror movie - CREEPY! If I saw that commercial back then when I was 2, I bet it gave me nightmares

I use a Galaxy 4 ... I've never even touched an IPhone, IPad or IPod .... literally ... and every time I see a Mac or "I" anything ... I walk the other way ... after seeing that commercial ... I think I understand why ... subconsciously.

RedLeg505 · 05-22-2014, 02:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Alyssa Marie

LNK, to be fair many things track us on the daily. The bigger issue here is.. No one has to file a subpeona for this information. It's freaking right there. Clear as day. It was just on the national news last night.

Probably wouldn't have happened if apple & google continued their fighting with each other,, but.. It is what it is.

TinMan, I'm just grateful the person who posted this on the other board happened to be watching cnn and decided to share it. I kinda freaked when I saw it. It's a little creepy. I know the govt can see this at any time, but.. Geez. Now anyone can.

Just spread the word. I'm going to mention it at the end of every date for the next couple of months.

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I didn't realize my Android phone and tablet recorded the same location history data. I have now turned it off on both and cleared the history file. Only saving grace is I regularly pin/password lock both the phone and tablet.

Guest042715 · 05-22-2014, 02:27 PM

What sucks is you have to do this every time there's an update.

plainjoe · 05-23-2014, 04:01 PM

Thus my hobby phone is a "stupid" (not smart) flip phone that I purchase from Walmart. Makes texing a pain in the ass, but there is no GPS or apps embedded to record my location.

Alyssa XOXO · 05-23-2014, 04:50 PM

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Originally Posted by plainjoe

Thus my hobby phone is a "stupid" (not smart) flip phone that I purchase from Walmart. Makes texing a pain in the ass, but there is no GPS or apps embedded to record my location.

^^^^ +1

Great info though hon!

Alyssa Marie · 05-23-2014, 06:41 PM

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Originally Posted by plainjoe

Thus my hobby phone is a "stupid" (not smart) flip phone that I purchase from Walmart. Makes texing a pain in the ass, but there is no GPS or apps embedded to record my location.

So you are saying that you leave your smart phone at work and not in your car? Or if you happen to *cough * have a few, I mean.. Stay late at work when you're supposed to be home? It's not only for seeing escorts. It's for every step that you take.

If you update any social media from a parking lot, anything. Even if you don't use it for hobby, if you have an iPhone I would look at these settings.

Unique_Carpenter · 05-23-2014, 08:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Alyssa Marie

So you are saying that you leave your smart phone at work and not in your car? Or if you happen to *cough * have a few, I mean.. Stay late at work when you're supposed to be home? It's not only for seeing escorts. It's for every step that you take. If you update any social media from a parking lot, anything. Even if you don't use it for hobby, if you have an iPhone I would look at these settings.

Zillion percent on the money. Thank you Alyssa M.
My mention is that this applies to all the newer smartphones.
Note that, depending on phone and Telco, this is similar to, or same as, the deal where parents track their kids, through the kids cell phones, which only takes a few minutes to download needed software into a PC at home.
Just substitute "significant other" for "parents" and "kids" with the result being that the significant thing quickly ends. Multi-phone plans are fun. Standard divorce background investigative.
So yes, leave your primary handheld at work, or wherever else is a plausible place, unless you're not worried about it at all.

fine dimes21 · 05-24-2014, 07:21 AM

Also turn it off for your camera too if you don't want the gps coordinates on where one took the pic or pics. All Iphone versions have the privacy settings.

Wakeup · 05-25-2014, 08:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Brooke Wilde

I use a Galaxy 4 ... I've never even touched an IPhone, IPad or IPod .... literally ... and every time I see a Mac or "I" anything ... I walk the other way ... after seeing that commercial ... I think I understand why ... subconsciously.

Heh...she thinks her Galaxy 4 doesn't use Location Services...

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha