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Blast from the past: Steve Jobs talks location privacy issues

by Michael Grothaus Apr 26th 2011 at 8:00PM

With Locationgate hitting a frenzy, All Things D has gone back and cut a new video of Steve Jobs and Google mobile boss Andy Rubin talking about privacy and location tracking on mobile phones. The footage comes from the D8 Conference last June and at D: Dive Into Mobile in December.

At All Things Digital, Jobs told Mossberg that Apple takes location data very seriously and that he believe privacy means that "people know what they're signing up for." Check out the collection of clips on the next page (word of warning, AllThingsD only provides the clip in Flash -- sorry, iOS readers). The insights are quite interesting given the current climate over location tracking.



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gto_mex_80

"Ask them" if they want to use Flash reader on THEIR iDevice.

"Ask them, Ask them."

April 27 2011 at 11:52 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Antynwa

Sorry.

But I don't care how you try to justify it. If there is a file that can be read that traces where you have been.

Well...Thats wrong isn't it?

April 27 2011 at 4:54 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ky

There's an all things digital app for IOS... i'm watching the privacy Jobs interview now, but I'm sure you can probably watch it from mobile Safari.

April 27 2011 at 4:46 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tom

Video plays fine on an iPad if you go to their site instead of trying to playing the embed here.

April 26 2011 at 11:15 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
exnewt

Absolutely unforgivable you didn't say "only provides the clip in Flash, iOS readers, start SkyFire"

sheesh....

April 26 2011 at 9:40 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
mack

There's nothing Steve says in the video that isn't accurate and true today. This whole thing is crazy - people are starting to make stuff up just to keep the news story running.

There's a file on my phone that people can read if they steal the phone or steal unencrypted backups of my phone from my synch PC, and it can tell them which cell towers I have been near. The file has been known about and written about for years, it is explicitly ruled in by the terms and conditions, but it suddenly becomes a hot topic because someone wrote a pretty mapping app to plot its contents.

Wow, someone's just stolen my phone, and the only information on it I'm worried about is that the thief can plot where I've been!?

April 26 2011 at 9:16 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Michael

am I starting to become a google hater when I see this and think... man... this guy is side-stepping and forked-tounging the questions?

April 26 2011 at 8:17 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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