6 iPhone Privacy Issues You Should Be Concerned About
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pHave you noticed the a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a has a tendency to gradually embed itself into every facet of your life? Personally, I went from owning a cheapo Motorola phone from WalMart to buying an a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a, so there was no question the a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a would be a game changer for me, but who would have thought I would be using it to: /pulliplan out my days/lilitrack my personal budget/liliexchange emails, phone calls, text messages, photos, videos, voice recordings, etc., with anyone and everyone/lilia href=http://www.appleiphonereview.com/news/google-latitude-for-iphone-cool-or-creepy/ rel=nofollowbroadcast my location/a via Google Latitude and other location sharing services/li/ulpConsidering how much we use the a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a to map out our personal lives, the disturbing truth is that strongApple#8217;s a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a is weak on privacy/strong./ph2Some improvements/h2pYes, Apple has addressed a couple of our privacy concerns with the a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a. /polliYou now have the option to a href=http://www.appleiphonereview.com/news/iphone-3-0-now-with-text-message-privacy/ rel=nofollowturn off SMS preview/a, a feature that displays an excerpt of incoming text messages, causing potentially a href=http://www.appleiphonereview.com/news/how-has-iphones-sms-preview-gotten-you-into-trouble/ rel=nofollowhumiliating situations/a./liliAlso, you can now delete individual text messages on a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a, whereas originally your only choice was to delete all messages from any given contact./li/olh2Top 6 a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a privacy issues/h2pWhile the above are certainly improvements, there is still a lot left to be desired in terms of privacy on the a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a. Below are strong6 a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a privacy issues/strong that you may not be aware of, but should be. Give them a look and decide whether it is still worth it for you to own or buy an a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a./ph3Consider:/h3olliimg src=http://www.appleiphonereview.com/images/passcode-lock.jpg alt=iPhone Passcode Lock align=right class=imgright /pstronga href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a#8217;s Passcode Lock can be hacked./strong In September of 2008, Jonathan Zdziarski a href=http://gizmodo.com/5046050/hacker-to-bypass-iphone-passcode-lock-during-live-webcast-on-september-11th class=extlink rel=nofollowbroadcast a webcast/a showing the world how to hack into an a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a that is guarded by a Passcode Lock (which you can toggle in Settings General Passcode Lock). /ppThe webcast on how to break a Passcode Lock was intended in part for law enforcement officers, but it can also teach thieves how to mine the data from iPhones they have stolen. If you have information in your a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a that you consider absolutely private, you should know that intruders can easily crack your a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a#8217;s Passcode Lock. /ppBesides the Passcode Lock preventing people from entering your a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a, individual apps from the App Store sometimes have Passcode Locks, like the Balance app, which I use to track my budget./liliimg src=http://www.appleiphonereview.com/images/iphone-screenshot.jpg alt=iPhone screenshot align=right class=imgright /pstronga href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a stores screenshots of your activities./strong To produce that shrinking effect that happens to your window whenever you press the home button, your a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a takes a picture of your screen. It stores a copy of the most recent screenshot and then supposedly deletes it. But according to a href=http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2008/09/hacker-says-sec/ class=extlink rel=nofollowWired/a, #8220;anyone who understands data is aware that in most cases, deletion does not permanently remove files from a storage device. Therefore, forensics experts have used this security flaw to gather evidence against criminals convicted of rape, murder or drug deals, Zdziarski said.#8221; /ppThe knowledge on how to dig up the screenshots from someone#8217;s a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a can certainly be used by law enforcement in the interests of society, but intruders with malicious intent can see your activity just as easily./lilistrongAT#038;T does not protect your privacy./strong The sole authorized a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a carrier in the United States assisted the National Security Agency in its illegal wiretapping scheme and was a href=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/18/washington/18nsa.html?ex=1350446400#038;en=77f0ccc7983c3780#038;ei=5124#038;partner=permalink#038;exprod=permalink class=extlink rel=nofollowgranted immunity/a from prosecution after the scandal was exposed.pYes, many a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=mobilemobile/a phones other than a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a run on AT#038;T, but with a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a you are transmitting much more personal data than you would on a more basic phone. If you#8217;re an a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a user in the US, it#8217;s worth considering that AT#038;T cooperated with the NSA#8217;s widespread wiretapping#8230; some AT#038;T customers a href=http://ask.metafilter.com/85567/Can-I-cancel-my-iphone-contract-due-to-ATampTs-wiretapping class=extlink rel=nofollowhave left/a because of it./ppimg src=http://www.appleiphonereview.com/images/iphone-wiretap.jpg alt=iPhone wiretapping class=img //liliimg src=http://appleiphonereview.com/images/iphone-geotag.jpg alt=iPhone geotag in EXIF data align=right class=imgright /pstronga href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a embeds your location into photos./strong By default, photos you take on an a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a 3G or 3G S are #8220;geotagged#8221; with the location where they were taken. Your latitude and longitude are recorded in your photos#8217; EXIF data based on a signal from a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a#8217;s GPS or possibly from cellular and WiFi triangulation. /ppMy a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a 3G used to ask me if it could use my #8220;Current Location#8221; when I would turn on the camera. Now my 3G S geotags my photos by default. To change how the a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a uses your location, go to Settings General and toggle Location Services. /lilistronga href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a doesn#8217;t let you lock down individual apps./strong Although the a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a#8217;s Passcode Lock can be hacked, as mentioned above, it would still be nice to be able to set a Passcode for just certain apps, like Messages, Email, and Notes, for example./liliimg src=http://www.appleiphonereview.com/images/iphone-text-preview.jpg alt=iPhone text message preview align=right class=imgright /pstronga href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a has no option to hide the names of people who send you text messages./strong This concern was noted in the comments of my post a href=http://www.appleiphonereview.com/news/how-has-iphones-sms-preview-gotten-you-into-trouble/ rel=nofollowHow Has iPhone#8217;s SMS Preview Gotten You Into Trouble?/a. There#8217;s a big debate in that thread about whether people who care about text message privacy are just a bunch of adulterers, but I tend to believe people#8217;s privacy motivations are their own business and if you want the option to hide names of text message senders, you should have it./li/olh2Worried about your privacy on a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a?/h2pstrongApple needs to increase security on the a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a/strong. Some of these privacy issues require taking a hard look at the a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a#8217;s core software, but others are options that could potentially be added to a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a#8217;s Restrictions in Settings General Restrictions./ppWhat do you think? What are your privacy concerns about the a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a? Please sound off in the comments and tell Apple why you want the a href=http://www.ipodworld.us title=iphoneiPhone/a to be more secure./pdiv class=feedflarea href=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?a=aAJhxtJuWqM:4FauNspELik:yIl2AUoC8zA rel=nofollowimg src=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?d=yIl2AUoC8zA border=0 //img/a a href=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?a=aAJhxtJuWqM:4FauNspELik:D7DqB2pKExk rel=nofollowimg src=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?i=aAJhxtJuWqM:4FauNspELik:D7DqB2pKExk border=0 //img/a a href=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?a=aAJhxtJuWqM:4FauNspELik:qj6IDK7rITs rel=nofollowimg src=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?d=qj6IDK7rITs border=0 //img/a a href=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?a=aAJhxtJuWqM:4FauNspELik:V_sGLiPBpWU rel=nofollowimg src=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?i=aAJhxtJuWqM:4FauNspELik:V_sGLiPBpWU border=0 //img/a a href=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?a=aAJhxtJuWqM:4FauNspELik:F7zBnMyn0Lo rel=nofollowimg src=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?i=aAJhxtJuWqM:4FauNspELik:F7zBnMyn0Lo border=0 //img/a a href=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?a=aAJhxtJuWqM:4FauNspELik:I9og5sOYxJI rel=nofollowimg src=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AppleiPhoneReview?d=I9og5sOYxJI border=0 //img/a/divimg src=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AppleiPhoneReview/~4/aAJhxtJuWqM height=1 width=1 /