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The entire useful content of the article: The application was populated with my movement data of the past week instantly. Instead of needing to use the applica
by quarterto 13y ago
The entire useful content of the article:
The application was populated with my movement data of the past week instantly. Instead of needing to use the application for a week to get sense if I like it, I could decide immediately.
- bjansn 13y agoThanks for your feedback!
- tenderLoins 13y agoOh boy! Now I get to wonder if this information is implicitly available to an alphabet agency without my direct consent or awareness. I have to wonder, by what order of magnitude this improves the precision of "THEIR" geolocation data, when "THEY" collect on persons of interest. (they? they who? gee, who's they???)
- melling 13y agoNo, it's not needed. The cell towers provide sufficient information about your location. How long have you had a cell phone?
- mulletbum 13y agoNot implicitly available. That would mean the app does not ask for permission, which is described in the article. implicitly gathered however is a different story.
- KaiserPro 13y agoProtip: the M7 is a sensor, not a storage device.
- masklinn 13y ago> the M7 is a sensor, not a storage device. No, M7 is a coprocessor (according to Chipworks it's an NXP LPC18A1 which would be a customized LPC18xx chip), and it does handle the storage of the data it collects. The sensors are sitting around it on the logic board: http://69f7c92b9620aa3c39c3-1b6df36b3db30f59ea35f42c7c7c4ffb.r23.cf1.rackcdn.com/2013/09/new-mems.jpg http://69f7c92b9620aa3c39c3-1b6df36b3db30f59ea35f42c7c7c4ffb...
- joezydeco 13y agoMost of the LPC17/18 family have 512k to 1 megabyte of on-die flash memory.