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Apple’s iPhone 3G and the ubiquitous internet

Started by holgr · 10 months ago

One thing that Apple is about to do right, at least from their point of view, before another big gun will is the combination of 3G, a data flatrate, GPS and the ubiquitous connection to the net. And all those bits and bytes will float through the inner tubes of Apple.
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  • Location-based advertisements are a benign use of tracking data when
    compared with the possibility of realtime-tracking by the government.
    Here in the US, AT&T has opened up its pipes to the government for a
    long time. How easy do you think it'll be for them to track the
    movements of any iPhone owner, should they choose to do so, now that
    the GPS chip is in there? It would be a trivial switch in terms of
    effort.

    But really, this applies to just about any phone with a GPS chip out
    there, not just the iPhone. The funny thing is, if the government had
    actually tried to get people to carry GPS devices so they could be
    tracked, they'd have never succeeded. But people have readily adopted
    them and have opened themselves to that possibility simply because
    they got some benefits out of it as well. Interesting how that worked,
    no?

    :-)

    R.

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