Apple knows where you are!

Recently Apple has been heavily criticized for embedding a device in Iphone's and Ipad's that tracks the users location even when the location services feature on the phone is turned off. Apple responded to reports that they are tracking users only to improve their location features on the phone and tablet and that if users wanted not to be tracked they had the option to turn off the location services feature.

The Wall Street Journal did a study and found that even when the location services feature was turned off the phone was still transmitting location points, granted it wasn't sending them back to apple but the phone and tablet were still communicating with cell towers and storing location data in the devices.

I don't know why people seem so surprised that Apple is tracking and storing information that it gathers from the location services that are provided with their devices. I think its safe to say that if you have any device nowadays has GPS or some sort of location service, that someone somewhere is tracking or at least looking at that information. The government has had the technology to track and even tap our cell phones for years, yes technically if they tap a phone illegally or use it to track you illegally then it is wrong, but its the government they can change the law and continue to do what they do.

In today's day in age if you think you aren't being tracked or watched you are very oblivious to what's going on around you. Your at a computer right now, meaning you are on the internet, meaning that your IP address is giving off a location so that specific advertisements can be shown to you because you are in a specific location. Thats just one simple example. Nearly everything we do whether it be email, text, talk on a cell phone or whatever it may be is monitored or has the potential to be monitored and tracked very very easily.

So to everyone who is getting mad at Apple for storing location information, get over it you are being tracked probably 10 other ways, let Apple do their thing, who knows maybe it will make my damn Iphone actually work.