Think, Talk, Hack

Browsing tag

iPhone location tracking

How Apple’s Find My Friends App Saved A 17-year-old Girl’s Life

Apple’s Find My Friends app has proved to be a helpful element in an iPhone that helped save a teenager’s life in North Carolina, United States. Macy Smith, a 17-year old Mount Airy girl, went missing, even crossed her curfew limit and failed to answer calls or reply to messages. Upon constantly using the Find […]

root

Dozens Of Popular iPhone Apps Caught Selling Your Location Data: Here’s What To Do

A group of researchers from the security firm GuardianApp has found that dozens of popular iPhone applications are selling the location data of the users to the third-party monetization firms. The report suggests that these apps use packaged code provided by these firms to collect precise location histories from millions of devices. While these apps first […]

root