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For run lion bros who use iOS7 and often 'pump petrol', this should keep you from kneeling on durian shells.
http://www.zdnet.com/four-privacy-settings-you-should-enable-in-ios-7-immediately-7000020902/
Turn these OFF...
Settings > Privacy > Location Services > System Services > Diagnostics & Usage
The Diagnostics & Usage setting monitors everything you do on your iPhone and "anonymously" sends it to Apple for "improving iOS." Whatever. It's just like when all the major software companies changed their install screens from "send usage data" to "customer experience program" or some such If that option is on you're basically giving Apple your permission to monitor and record everything you do on your device.
Settings > Privacy > Location Services > System Services > Frequent Locations
Frequent Locations is equally bad, if not more so. There was a big stir about this when iOS 7 beta 5 was released and the data it captures about your "frequent locations" can be downright creepy. In fact, for many it brought back memories of the Locationgate fiasco from iOS 4 in April 2011 when a "database of Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers around your current location" (a.k.a. Consolidated.db) was discovered on iOS 4 devices -- and the computers they're backed up to.
Settings > Privacy > Location Services > System Services > Location-Based iAds
iAds created it's own privacy uproar in June 2010 when a 45-page update to Apple’s privacy policy which detailed how your location information could be used to allow the company – and their "partners and licensees" – to "collect, use, and share precise location data, including the real-time geographic location of your Apple computer or device." The privacy policy has been toned down quite a bit since then and Apple posted a knowledge base article titled "How to opt out of interest-based ads from the iAd network." I turn this off and am happy with "less relevant" ads being shown.
You should also turn ON "Limit Ad Tracking" here:
Settings > Privacy > Advertising
...and for bonus points, touch "Reset Advertising Identifier" below that. I wrote about both of these back in January 2013:
Apple dropped support for the UDID with iOS 6.0 in September 2012 and replaced it with a new feature called the Advertising Identifier.
For run lion bros who use iOS7 and often 'pump petrol', this should keep you from kneeling on durian shells.
http://www.zdnet.com/four-privacy-settings-you-should-enable-in-ios-7-immediately-7000020902/
Turn these OFF...
Settings > Privacy > Location Services > System Services > Diagnostics & Usage
The Diagnostics & Usage setting monitors everything you do on your iPhone and "anonymously" sends it to Apple for "improving iOS." Whatever. It's just like when all the major software companies changed their install screens from "send usage data" to "customer experience program" or some such If that option is on you're basically giving Apple your permission to monitor and record everything you do on your device.
Settings > Privacy > Location Services > System Services > Frequent Locations
Frequent Locations is equally bad, if not more so. There was a big stir about this when iOS 7 beta 5 was released and the data it captures about your "frequent locations" can be downright creepy. In fact, for many it brought back memories of the Locationgate fiasco from iOS 4 in April 2011 when a "database of Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers around your current location" (a.k.a. Consolidated.db) was discovered on iOS 4 devices -- and the computers they're backed up to.
Settings > Privacy > Location Services > System Services > Location-Based iAds
iAds created it's own privacy uproar in June 2010 when a 45-page update to Apple’s privacy policy which detailed how your location information could be used to allow the company – and their "partners and licensees" – to "collect, use, and share precise location data, including the real-time geographic location of your Apple computer or device." The privacy policy has been toned down quite a bit since then and Apple posted a knowledge base article titled "How to opt out of interest-based ads from the iAd network." I turn this off and am happy with "less relevant" ads being shown.
You should also turn ON "Limit Ad Tracking" here:
Settings > Privacy > Advertising
...and for bonus points, touch "Reset Advertising Identifier" below that. I wrote about both of these back in January 2013:
Apple dropped support for the UDID with iOS 6.0 in September 2012 and replaced it with a new feature called the Advertising Identifier.
