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That's a hugely misleading title. You have to agree to the terms, however you can then immediately opt out of the specific change and continue using the Appsto
by Tyrannosaurs 16y ago
That's a hugely misleading title.
You have to agree to the terms, however you can then immediately opt out of the specific change and continue using the Appstore as normal without sharing location based information.
I'm not sure how this is any worse than G-mail scanning e-mails of Google or Bing using your web searches.
- michaelcampbell 16y agoBing has web searches? (I kid, I kid...)
- Retric 16y agoI stopped using the store because of this issue. Now, if there is some hidden option that will block this "feature" that's different, but I have yet to find it.
- KC8ZKF 16y agohttp://oo.apple.com http://oo.apple.com
- Retric 16y agoThat does not opt you out of the policy: To provide location-based services on Apple products, Apple and our partners and licensees may collect, use, and share precise location data, including the real-time geographic location of your Apple computer or device. This location data is collected anonymously in a form that does not personally identify you and is used by Apple and our partners and licensees to provide and improve location-based products and services. For example, we may share geographic location with application providers when you opt in to their location services. They might be using it to sell advertizing today, but that's far from the only thing they can do with that data.
- astrange 16y agoBrowsing the store does not send them location information except for an IP address. The system never requests location information without giving a confirmation dialog first. This hasn't ever changed and I don't see why it would have. The only thing that has changed is that you read a misleading article.
- Sidnicious 16y agoI don't know why people keep mentioning that website in the context of the location issue. iAds/oo.apple.com are in a different section of the privacy policy entirely. They have nothing to do with location tracking.
- huhtenberg 16y agoThat's a hugely misleading comment. You can opt out of receiving location-based ads, but you cannot opt out of sharing your location. Just read the terms of http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4228 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4228 carefully.
- neonfunk 16y agoIn fact, you can completely disable location services with one switch. (Settings --> General --> Location Services --> Off) If you prefer a more granular approach, all apps (including Apple's own), allow you to disable location services for that app alone. In addition, all 3rd party apps, on first requesting location data, require the user to explicitly opt-in.
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- neonfunk 16y agoIs there an iAd daemon? Anyway, I'd hope that explicitly disabling all location services would do just that. If headless apps were still powering on the GPS and triangulating cell towers and wifi... well, that'd certainly be misleading. But I doubt that's the case.
- Tyrannosaurs 16y agoIf it were powering on the GPS that would be significant. Aside from the privacy perspective, many people power down GPS to save the battery which is something which should absolutely be something which remains under user control.
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