"This store location data without the knowledge of those affected would be under German data protection law is certainly not acceptable, " said the Federal Data Protection Commissioner Peter Schaar, the news agency dpa. Consumer Protection Minister Ilse Aigner also (CSU) called for Apple's education. The group is silent so far.
The Apple devices store the information on whereabouts of the past months in a hidden file and transfer it on the computer to which they are connected for data exchange. There, they can be read with special software. The IT expert Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden found no evidence that the information to Apple and others are forwarded. You see a problem in the fact that unauthorized persons could gain access to this data, because the iPhone data are not automatically encrypted.
The German network expert Frank Rieger from the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) said the risk in this case, especially that the phone be lost and the data would be read out. Or that someone accessing the computer on which lay a copy of the data, and then staging the last few years are available and can be read without the user knowing it. "
The relevant data protection Bavarian Thomas Kranig demanded in writing by Apple Enlightenment. Apple should answer that store equipment movement data, what data are and where they are stored. In addition, the privacy advocates will know who have access to the data, "whether and to what Apple is doing and whether the user has the option to suppress this data collection. He had sent the questionnaire to the German Apple branch in Munich, said Kranig dpa.
And mobile communications providers raise the operation of their networks for the part of such information. "If you move with your mobile phone, next to the current wireless cell, the early radio cell stored, " said a spokeswoman about the Deutsche Telekom. It was always only the current whereabouts. "The previous detections will be deleted. Motion profiles are not saved. "
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