Thursday, May 05, 2011
iOS 4.3.3 (untracking your location)
Apple was quick enough to respond on the recent hubbub thrown at them from all angles of the technoworld - the buzz about "your iDevices are tracking you".
The news came to a wildfire last week of April and has intensified further when countries such as South Korea came up to Apple questioning why it's collecting location information.
The first wave of news about this tracking, spying, and storing the location information where you have been, made me a little freaked out. It has subsided and ebbed slowly as soon as i've set foot on the blogs of NYTimes' David Pogue and Scott Adams'. Their insights and perceptions at least have made me calmed down. (I'm an advocate of privacy, so despite the vastness of the internet, i'm kind of cautious on my online trails nevertheless)
As of this writing, my iDevice is currently working its guts to finalize the iOS 4.3.3 update. I'm glad Apple has immediately insinuated this update.
So, for all of you folks who have iPhones, iPod Touches, and iPads... go and connect your iDevice to iTunes and update your software. (yun lang! unjailbreak na naman)
-mAc