flâneur – noun; idler or lounger
Everyone loves mooching around the streets of a strange city via the wonderful Street View feature on Google Maps. But even so, there’s a lot of tedious clicking and mousing to be done if you really want to get the feel of a place. What we need is a more relaxing way to explore.
London-based writer, …
Two men in Florida have filed a class action lawsuit against Apple over the recently-reported hidden database file found on iPhones and 3G-enabled iPads that periodically records users’ location coordinates.
The suit claims that “users of Apple products have … no way to prevent Apple from collecting this information because even if …
In case you hadn’t heard, there’s a little file on your iPhone called “consolidated.db” that records your whereabouts every so often.
Some people are upset about it and some people are saying it’s not a big deal. However you perceive it, you can take a simple step to ensure that the location information recorded by your iPhone doesn’t …
At this point, unless you’ve been living under a digital rock, everyone knows that Apple is collecting data from your iPhone. But why are they doing it?
(More: How to Encrypt Your iPhone’s Location Data)
Turns out the answer is simpler than you think, and it doesn’t involve a conspiracy theory, the government or David Duchovny. …
The row about iPhone data logging rumbles on today. One security expert says your iPhone sends your location to Apple “twice a day” – and that you agreed to it (even if you didn’t realize it at the time).
Another says the data file at the center of the row is nothing new, and that Apple never gets its hands on it.
