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<blockquote data-quote="Steve Milner" data-source="post: 26182" data-attributes="member: 9">Re: Apple Loses My Respect&nbsp;During the last batch of snow here, we lost power throughout the majority of the county for 3-4 days. During this time, a local young man went on a little spree of breaking into homes and stealing small goods (small electronics, jewelry etc)... he was apprehended when a homeowner came home and found that although he had fled the scene hours earlier, he had left his cell phone plugged in and charging, as they were in one of the few areas unaffected by the power outage... DOH!!! &nbsp;&nbsp;I too would appreciate a way to turn the data storing off... but I&#039;m not going to loose sleep over this. I cannot imagine under any circumstance where Apple would think it beneficial to do something underhanded with this information *(if in-fact they have a single piece of it in their possession)... By the same token, if someone is SO interested in tracking your movements that they are willing to commit a crime themselves and gain access to your personal phone or computer, you likely have a larger issue at hand to deal with. Anyone who can legally obtain access to this data, will do so regardless of what model phone you own. &nbsp;Also, I have yet to hear of or find a single case of the Apple cloud&#039;s security being compromised... perhaps it is as you suggest &quot;child&#039;s play&quot; to do so, but I haven&#039;t heard of it happening yet. &nbsp;It would be easier of course, if anyone knew for what purpose this data was originally decided to be collected locally... that will be interesting to find out for sure.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Steve Milner, post: 26182, member: 9"] Re: Apple Loses My Respect During the last batch of snow here, we lost power throughout the majority of the county for 3-4 days. During this time, a local young man went on a little spree of breaking into homes and stealing small goods (small electronics, jewelry etc)... he was apprehended when a homeowner came home and found that although he had fled the scene hours earlier, he had left his cell phone plugged in and charging, as they were in one of the few areas unaffected by the power outage... DOH!!! I too would appreciate a way to turn the data storing off... but I'm not going to loose sleep over this. I cannot imagine under any circumstance where Apple would think it beneficial to do something underhanded with this information *(if in-fact they have a single piece of it in their possession)... By the same token, if someone is SO interested in tracking your movements that they are willing to commit a crime themselves and gain access to your personal phone or computer, you likely have a larger issue at hand to deal with. Anyone who can legally obtain access to this data, will do so regardless of what model phone you own. Also, I have yet to hear of or find a single case of the Apple cloud's security being compromised... perhaps it is as you suggest "child's play" to do so, but I haven't heard of it happening yet. It would be easier of course, if anyone knew for what purpose this data was originally decided to be collected locally... that will be interesting to find out for sure. [/QUOTE]

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