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I wish this wasn't presented as sinister. The fact is, that phone companies store all that data for EVERY cell phone, and it's always available to government a
by awakeasleep 16y ago
I wish this wasn't presented as sinister.
The fact is, that phone companies store all that data for EVERY cell phone, and it's always available to government agencies and divorce attorneys after a subpoena.
All this does is raise the common man's awareness, and possibly provides an afternoon of fun looking at your travel history. If you want your iphone data secret, it prompts you to encrypt your backups when you first plug the phone in.
- earl 16y agoNo. Given eg the police in Michigan using devices to dump phone contents on a regular basis [1], there is an enormous difference between unencrypted data on a device just sitting there and anything requiring a subpoena. [1] http://www.mobiledia.com/news/87523.html http://www.mobiledia.com/news/87523.html
- awakeasleep 16y agoElsewhere in the threads you can see that device won't work with a password-protected iPhone
- kovar 16y agoThe issue is that this data used to only be available via the service provider. Now it is available from the device, and the device it syncs to.