Comment by mankyd
4 years ago
If that's the case, they wouldn't need to report the location back to themselves, would they? The phone would simply check its coordinates, and turn it on or off.
4 years ago
If that's the case, they wouldn't need to report the location back to themselves, would they? The phone would simply check its coordinates, and turn it on or off.
This appears to be the case. From the linked article:
> The management of Ultrawide Band compliance and its use of location data is done entirely on the device and Apple is not collecting user location data.
I don’t think anyone is saying that iOS does report back to Apple (and I don’t think there is any evidence that iOS does this).
The original concern was caused because iOS would still activate location services and display the icon during these checks, even if you had turned location services off completely in settings.
That is exactly what the article is talking about.
I’m not sure which article your looking at, but neither the OP article, or the Kerbs article suggests that Apple is collecting location data derived from location services on a phone and sending it back to the mothership.
The OP article suggests that IP data from the uploads could be used to estimate location, and their table has a “location” column. But that column seems to be referencing the fact that iOS reports when location services are turned on and off, rather than a specific location derived from the phones sensors.
This is of course ignoring opt-in telemetry which is used to improve maps etc. Which obviously involves sending your location back to Apple.
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