Wednesday, September 25, 2013

The new iPhone 5 – yet another James Bond to collect Big Data?

Congratulations to all iPhone lovers and owners with the launch of the new iPhone 5 (5c and 5s) and also iOS7. I have installed the iOS7 on my iPhone 4 recently and like it so far. It is nice, and has furnished most of the former features like visual-touch screen effects and software convenience. It is topped with additional sound effects and ringtones as well as a few other slight improvements. Here is an external link to a video describing what is new in the new iOS7:



Another feature that caught my attention was the camera roll nuances. In the older version along with the photo albums there was a map with locations of where the pictures were taken, if you activated the location services. In new iOS7 it is time-stamped and indicates the location of the photo as well. You have an option to collate your pictures by the moments taken as well as by the locations. On the full scale map you see your stacks of pictures by locations and the screen of the phone lets you zoom in to see the exact location where the picture was taken with 2-3 meters maximum possible error. On the one hand this is an amazing option, but on the other hand, if the iPhone knows it, then Mr. Tim Cook and his intelligent employees know this information for sure, too. And you don’t know how large and ongoing that spiral of flow is. So iPhone makers have the meta data of where you shoot pictures and when you do it. But I am wondering, is it possible that they also see the content of the pictures???

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