Thanks for explaining the FISA part. I deliberately didn’t claim certainty on whether these legally compelled requests counted as warrants because I didn’t kno

Thanks for explaining the FISA part. I deliberately didn’t claim certainty on whether these legally compelled requests counted as warrants because I didn’t know for sure. > It doesn't matter whether they run geolocation on the IP logs; logging the IPs is collecting a tracklog regardless of whether they store it as such or not. The weasel words here are ‘as such’. If they substitute the IP address with an anonymous identifier after ingestion, without having first performed geolocation then they have not recorded the location data, and they do not have a record of the location data. I realize you don’t want to be critiqued, but it’s clear that you don’t have any evidence that Apple is actually storing location data on people. You only have an explanation as to how they could potentially be storing it. On almost every post regarding Apple, you insert alarming sounding statements like “Apple is recording your travel history”. You must know that you don’t actually know this for sure, and yet you persist in inserting this falsehood over and over again. Liar is a strong term, but if you had actual evidence for the claim you are making, you’d have presented it by now. When you make the claim as if it was a truth, when you know you really don’t know for sure, I think it’s fair to say you are lying. Perhaps the first time it could have been that you were just mistaken or making incorrect assumptions, but at this point it seems deliberate. It’s true that I’ve challenged you on this a couple of times. It’s simply not true that I have replied to every one of your comments on this topic. As I pointed out earlier, elsewhere on this thread you pointed out that IP addresses can leak coarse location data. I didn’t respond to that. As for ‘cross-examining’ you, I agree that is against the site guidelines, however I don’t see myself as doing that to you in general. The site needs to have some way of distinguishing between cross-examination and challenging outright lies. It would seem weird to tolerate polemics which veer into misinformation as comments, and yet not allow this to be challenged. I’m curious why it’s so important to insert this particular idea about Apple into the conversation? It seems especially weird when we’re taking about cellphones, whose location is of course logged by cell companies and is definitely accessible to both law enforcement and other government agencies.