Iphone users beware/history of where you go on phone

[turkeyfeathers]

I don't wear tinfoil hats or think anyone is out to get me but recently  learned on tv that everywhere you are is tracked by your phone . They showed on hosts phone exactly where he lived, google image his house, where he frequents etc. Droid phones are the same but I only know to enable the Iphone

Here goes:

Settings

 Scroll down  to Privacy

Location services (on is ok for apps needing them, FB, Weather, Maps , Compass, Camera etc) Hit Location Services and scroll down apps that use Location Services down to System Services

Hit System Services and scroll down to Frequent Locations (mine is right after Wi-Fi Networking in the drop down ). It should or probably say on. First delete Frequent Location history and then swipe to off. Mess around and see where you've been before deleting history.

[DirtTime]

Even phones not connected to the web can be traced. Deleting history does no good. You downloaded to the HD on your phone, just like downloading things to a computer. It becomes embedded. You can delete it, but the data is still on there. Where do people think that data goes? You burn that data on your HD, like branding a cow. It doesn't really go away completely, there are still traces of it left behing. It used to be called "Ghost Data". Who knows what they call it now.

[Elmo]

Even phones not connected to the web can be traced. Deleting history does no good. You downloaded to the HD on your phone, just like downloading things to a computer. It becomes embedded. You can delete it, but the data is still on there. Where do people think that data goes? You burn that data on your HD, like branding a cow. It doesn't really go away completely, there are still traces of it left behing. It used to be called "Ghost Data". Who knows what they call it now.

 

When you copy something to your hard drive, it makes magnetic indentations on the physical hard drive.  When you delete a file it doesn't remove it.  All it does is mark that area of the hard drive that the file was located at as being free to be written over but until your computer re-writes over it, it is still there.  Hence, "ghost data".  The only way to completely remove it from your computer is to a. use a software that will write gibberish into every single space located on your drive (not 100% secure) or b. put it through a degausser (a device that de-magnetizes the entire drive and flatten it out).  A decent degausser cost several thousand dollars, though.

[Elmo]

Your cellphone "pings" a radio tower every few seconds or so and the cell phone company keeps a log.  Even old style, flip phones, the cell phone company can determine your location at any given time based on the length of time a "ping" takes to reach certain towers.  So as long as you carry any cellphone, GPS on or not, they can track you.

[jrm]

I don't wear tinfoil hats or think anyone is out to get me but recently  learned on tv that everywhere you are is tracked by your phone . They showed on hosts phone exactly where he lived, google image his house, where he frequents etc. Droid phones are the same but I only know to enable the Iphone

FWIW, this is very old news.

A few years back, there was a big story about this with the iPhone. There was an app you could download which would show your entire location history. Everywhere the phone went was recorded in the phone. Pretty creepy.

Phones have GPS. They know where they are. The phone company knows where you are... they have to in order to route an incoming cell phone call to you.

Every time you access a web page, send an email - anything online - your internet provider knows where you are.

Every web page you access, every email you send or receive... your internet provider has complete access to all that information. It's the way the internet is designed and there's no avoiding it. (You could encrypt emails, but still cannot hide the sender and receiver information).

Your credit card company has information about everything you purchase.

If you have Ezpass, information on where you go and when you go there is all recorded.

The only way to avoid this is to go off the grid. Not easy to do, but technically possible.

You do need to be careful about what information you put out into any of these electronic information systems, but 99% of people's life is in one or more databases. There's no getting around it - it is a reality we have to learn to live with.

Edited May 5, 2015 by jrm

[Black Bellamy]

 

 

The only way to completely remove it from your computer is to a. use a software that will write gibberish into every single space located on your drive (not 100% secure) or b. put it through a degausser (a device that de-magnetizes the entire drive and flatten it out).  A decent degausser cost several thousand dollars, though.

 

If you're using a Mac with Yosemite OS, click Finder, then click Secure Empty Trash.

 

To securely wipe any drive connected to your Mac, launch Disk Utilities, select drive, click Erase tab, click Security Option, select Most Secure, then click Erase button.

 

Finally, turn on whole disk encryption by turning on the File Vault https://support.apple.com/kb/PH18637?locale=en_US&viewlocale=en_US

 

This meets the DOD 5220-22M standard for securely erasing magnetic media.

 

If you're on a Windows platform, may the gods have mercy on your paranoid soul.

[Lawdwaz]

But if I loose my phone they can't help me find it right?

[phade]

We found a lost iphone one day while it was lost during a push about an hour prior...the find my phone feature worked brilliantly. We would not have found it otherwise.