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Allow Access to My Location?

Allow Access to My Location?

By katie wilson on February 1, 2017 | Tagged with access, Data, Digital identity, Digital Security, digital tattoo, GPS, location, location sharing

Introduction How many times a day do applications on your phone ask to be allowed to access your location. Do you leave your location GPS on all the time? Do you know how to turn it off? If you’re not concerned with how companies like Google having access to your location, consider that with that […]

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iPhone records location data – even when you tell it not to

By Kathleen Kalk on April 25, 2011 | Tagged with data, geolocation, location, mobile, privacy

An article appearing in the Wall Street Journal this morning says that an iPhone user’s location data – their coordinates and some timestamps – is automatically collected by the phones, regardless of whether the location-sharing feature on the phone is turned on or off. The revelation comes after two developers released an iPhone app that […]

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