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<blockquote data-quote="Steve Milner" data-source="post: 26320" data-attributes="member: 9">Re: Apple Loses My Respect&nbsp;Do you believe that your phone carrier does not track and store the location for your Nokia Cell phone? If so, you are mistaken... in fact, it is this type of data collection that has been used by the government in the past to prosecute individuals under investigation.... the precedent was set using this type of data collection, not with any data provided by Apple or any smart phones. &nbsp;Langston... by all means, sell your iPhone (if it&#039;s a iPhone 4... I&#039;m in the market to upgrade from my 3...seriously... shoot me a PM) but what are you going to do to replace it? Prepaid cell phones purchased with cash from 7-11 ? Go back to carrying quarters and using a call box (if you can find one these days)? I just don&#039;t see a practical way around the fact that any cellular device you carry does the exact same thing. &nbsp;Now of course, your normal cell phone doesn&#039;t store a log of info on your computer... but I keep my computer and ALL of my data as secure as I can, and if someone was to gain access to all of my data, my locations would hardly be the thing they are most interested in.&nbsp;If you want to hang onto the illusion of privacy in the modern world for a few years longer, by all means, fight the good fight... but I think you will find in practice, that it is majorly impractical to accomplish. Anonymity is a concept that is quickly fading from our society. &nbsp;I&#039;m going back to watching The Cosby Show on my Apple TV now... just incase anyone is interest in my activities. If you have any use for my location, and I will gladly PM my coordinates to anyone who asks... that is a standing offer.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Steve Milner, post: 26320, member: 9"] Re: Apple Loses My Respect Do you believe that your phone carrier does not track and store the location for your Nokia Cell phone? If so, you are mistaken... in fact, it is this type of data collection that has been used by the government in the past to prosecute individuals under investigation.... the precedent was set using this type of data collection, not with any data provided by Apple or any smart phones. Langston... by all means, sell your iPhone (if it's a iPhone 4... I'm in the market to upgrade from my 3...seriously... shoot me a PM) but what are you going to do to replace it? Prepaid cell phones purchased with cash from 7-11 ? Go back to carrying quarters and using a call box (if you can find one these days)? I just don't see a practical way around the fact that any cellular device you carry does the exact same thing. Now of course, your normal cell phone doesn't store a log of info on your computer... but I keep my computer and ALL of my data as secure as I can, and if someone was to gain access to all of my data, my locations would hardly be the thing they are most interested in. If you want to hang onto the illusion of privacy in the modern world for a few years longer, by all means, fight the good fight... but I think you will find in practice, that it is majorly impractical to accomplish. Anonymity is a concept that is quickly fading from our society. I'm going back to watching The Cosby Show on my Apple TV now... just incase anyone is interest in my activities. If you have any use for my location, and I will gladly PM my coordinates to anyone who asks... that is a standing offer. [/QUOTE]

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