Apple's iPhone will automatically save motion profiles of its users, as Google keeps about privacy? According to initial findings of the developers also put Android phones to standard protocols - but only if the cell phone owner's consent. Logged my Google phone also where I've stopped me? This was the first thought of the Swedish software developer Magnus Eriksson when he invest and for locating the unencrypted data banks read that Apple's iPhone by default.
Since Eriksson's programmers, he took before Google's mobile operating system Android, to answer this question. He searched the source code, read log files on his smartphone. His conclusion: Google stores - but less than Apple. Eriksson has discovered two location databases on its Android phone.
A stores information about locations based on cell towers, the other based on wireless networks in the area. The databases contain coordinates, the exact second scheduled time and an identification number. The New York developer Mike Castleman is the tool of Sweden took the route through Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens visualized on a map.
His personal conclusion: "Logging is not as intrusive as the iPhone, yet the unpleasant and potentially dangerous." Magnus Eriksson has his own theory about what these data are stored: To save electricity, and in urban canyons with poor GPS reception quickly determine the position of having both devices also provide information of mobile phone masts and Wi-Fi hotspots.
Both Google and Apple maintain worldwide databases with location details on these radio signals - so it can be seen more quickly, where there is just a phone. Eriksson believes that iPhone and Android devices once been asked to store information on the device to save power - if you're in a city on the road, you have to call every time the same data.
Eriksson looks at Apple's implementation, however, a security risk that Google's technology does not have Apple stores indefinitely. Message validity - Google recorded less than Apple The Google database is limited (at least in the source code of Android version 2.2, has analyzed the Eriksson).
Android stores up to 50 records with location data, collected using cell towers and a maximum of 200 records with location information based on W-LAN hotspots in the area. Are recorded once 50 or 200 records, the old will be automatically overwritten. Eriksson considers this critical difference: "This is obviously a big security risk.
It gets worse by the fact that the files are transferred each time you synchronize to your computer. "Apple's database, according to present knowledge indefinitely. Theoretically rich Apple's protocols at least until June 2010 back. The difference describes developer Mike Castleman to the technical services" Ars Technica " like this:..
Google stores the data in a cache, Apple recorded her "protection - Apple stores unencrypted by default on computers iPhones the files encrypted on the computer, where the phone is synchronized This is the Android-database is not the . case programmers Eriksson sees there is a risk of the Apple procedure: "It is not good if one has on his computer a file that contains the locations of all cell towers or Wi-Fi hotspots in the vicinity of the phone has ever been - .
including the time and date. "acquisition - Google asks the users of Google users indicates an Android phone in the first set up the device to capture location data, the information is as follows:" Use to allow the Google location service, anonymous and aggregated location data capture.
The collection also takes place when no applications are running, "This agreement can be revoked at any time in which you put the service: In the menu of Android phones will be under". Location "," wireless ", can here be off that the site is determined the device via wireless networks and mobile masts.
Activate the function will return the reference to the location acquisition. Apple has customers on site survey in June 2010 by an amendment to a story in its privacy policy . informed or not informed: The section is one of 20,000 characters of text in total, he will allow Apple, but also raise "partners and licensees," the Group "precise location data", use and share, "including the geographical location of your.
Apple computer or device in real time. "This logging feature of the iPhone can not switch to current knowledge, the computer forensic investigator Alex Levinson developed analysis software to preserve evidence for investigators, he said.." To my knowledge there is no way the local storage of data on the to stop appliance "transmission -.
anonymized Google home radios, Apple and Google who enabled devices to locate help, agrees to a transfer of certain data. Google spokesman Kay Oberbeck said: "Any location data to be sent to location servers of Google, is anonymous and not linked in any way, or attributable to a specific user." IPhones also submit regular anonymised information on cell towers and Wi-Fi networks in their range, the phone has been since the last transmission.
That has given Apple in July 2010 compared to U.S. Congress. The letter stated that Apple has been collecting in 2008 with the help of millions of iPhones worldwide information on cell towers and wireless networks. The Group has built its own database from this information that helps in locating equipment when no GPS signal is available.
These data are provided according to Apple with a randomly generated every 24 hours identification number so that they can not be traced to a particular device or user. The collected data on the device transmits the consolidated data every twelve hours, according to Apple when an encrypted wireless connection is active.
Apple has not until the publication of this article responded to inquiries about the movement profiles.
Since Eriksson's programmers, he took before Google's mobile operating system Android, to answer this question. He searched the source code, read log files on his smartphone. His conclusion: Google stores - but less than Apple. Eriksson has discovered two location databases on its Android phone.
A stores information about locations based on cell towers, the other based on wireless networks in the area. The databases contain coordinates, the exact second scheduled time and an identification number. The New York developer Mike Castleman is the tool of Sweden took the route through Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens visualized on a map.
His personal conclusion: "Logging is not as intrusive as the iPhone, yet the unpleasant and potentially dangerous." Magnus Eriksson has his own theory about what these data are stored: To save electricity, and in urban canyons with poor GPS reception quickly determine the position of having both devices also provide information of mobile phone masts and Wi-Fi hotspots.
Both Google and Apple maintain worldwide databases with location details on these radio signals - so it can be seen more quickly, where there is just a phone. Eriksson believes that iPhone and Android devices once been asked to store information on the device to save power - if you're in a city on the road, you have to call every time the same data.
Eriksson looks at Apple's implementation, however, a security risk that Google's technology does not have Apple stores indefinitely. Message validity - Google recorded less than Apple The Google database is limited (at least in the source code of Android version 2.2, has analyzed the Eriksson).
Android stores up to 50 records with location data, collected using cell towers and a maximum of 200 records with location information based on W-LAN hotspots in the area. Are recorded once 50 or 200 records, the old will be automatically overwritten. Eriksson considers this critical difference: "This is obviously a big security risk.
It gets worse by the fact that the files are transferred each time you synchronize to your computer. "Apple's database, according to present knowledge indefinitely. Theoretically rich Apple's protocols at least until June 2010 back. The difference describes developer Mike Castleman to the technical services" Ars Technica " like this:..
Google stores the data in a cache, Apple recorded her "protection - Apple stores unencrypted by default on computers iPhones the files encrypted on the computer, where the phone is synchronized This is the Android-database is not the . case programmers Eriksson sees there is a risk of the Apple procedure: "It is not good if one has on his computer a file that contains the locations of all cell towers or Wi-Fi hotspots in the vicinity of the phone has ever been - .
including the time and date. "acquisition - Google asks the users of Google users indicates an Android phone in the first set up the device to capture location data, the information is as follows:" Use to allow the Google location service, anonymous and aggregated location data capture.
The collection also takes place when no applications are running, "This agreement can be revoked at any time in which you put the service: In the menu of Android phones will be under". Location "," wireless ", can here be off that the site is determined the device via wireless networks and mobile masts.
Activate the function will return the reference to the location acquisition. Apple has customers on site survey in June 2010 by an amendment to a story in its privacy policy . informed or not informed: The section is one of 20,000 characters of text in total, he will allow Apple, but also raise "partners and licensees," the Group "precise location data", use and share, "including the geographical location of your.
Apple computer or device in real time. "This logging feature of the iPhone can not switch to current knowledge, the computer forensic investigator Alex Levinson developed analysis software to preserve evidence for investigators, he said.." To my knowledge there is no way the local storage of data on the to stop appliance "transmission -.
anonymized Google home radios, Apple and Google who enabled devices to locate help, agrees to a transfer of certain data. Google spokesman Kay Oberbeck said: "Any location data to be sent to location servers of Google, is anonymous and not linked in any way, or attributable to a specific user." IPhones also submit regular anonymised information on cell towers and Wi-Fi networks in their range, the phone has been since the last transmission.
That has given Apple in July 2010 compared to U.S. Congress. The letter stated that Apple has been collecting in 2008 with the help of millions of iPhones worldwide information on cell towers and wireless networks. The Group has built its own database from this information that helps in locating equipment when no GPS signal is available.
These data are provided according to Apple with a randomly generated every 24 hours identification number so that they can not be traced to a particular device or user. The collected data on the device transmits the consolidated data every twelve hours, according to Apple when an encrypted wireless connection is active.
Apple has not until the publication of this article responded to inquiries about the movement profiles.
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