Gone are the days of true privacy.  If you don’t want to be tracked, stay off the internet as well as cell phones.  That’s the way it’s going to be people.  I admit, I’m very skeptical.  When it comes company’s privacy policies, it’s just a matter of their word.  Even if a company as a whole means well, all it takes is one individual that goes against policy to blow it.  In short, just think of privacy as a best effort approach.  Apple released a Q/A about location tracking with its iPhones.  Reading through it, Apple is essentially saying that it maintains your privacy and the information is used only for better cell phone service.  Apple is also saying that people need to be educated and that the media has blown stuff out of proportion.  I find it odd sometimes that it takes the media to blow something out of proportion before there “happens” to be a discovery of a bug where an iOS update is needed to “fix” the bug where the cache is not deleted when location services are turned off.  Coincidence?  Maybe, but one thing’s for sure.  This is sure to shape privacy issues that we will continue to play out with the continuance of technology.

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