Apple Says It's Not A Threat To China's Security | TechTree.com

Apple Says It's Not A Threat To China's Security

Gives a simple reply which will obviously fall on deaf ears.

 

Apple is fighting an uphill battle after the Chinese state media reportedly blamed the company for its software feature, saying that it could reveal national secrets. The feature called ‘Frequent Locations’ reportedly tracks a user’s location data and basically helps cell-phones lock on its GPS location quicker.

Apple released a statement making things crystal clear about how the ‘Frequent Locations’ feature works:"Calculating a phone’s location using just GPS satellite data can take several minutes. iPhone can reduce this time to just a few seconds by using pre-stored WLAN hotspot and cell tower location data in combination with information about which hotspots and cell towers are currently being received by the iPhone. In order to accomplish this goal, Apple maintains a secure crowd-sourced database containing known locations of cell towers and WLAN hotspots that Apple collects from millions of Apple devices. It’s important to point out that during this collection process, an Apple device does not transmit any data that is uniquely associated with the device or the customer."

The Chinese media earlier blamed the American tech company, stating that such data in the wrong hands could be used to leak out state secrets. The log that records the locations of the users could also be used to track their locations and could be used against them. The media even went to say that the feature could even reveal the nations economy as well (we have no clue how).

We guess an end to this would mean Apple turning off the feature for iPhones sold in China via a software update. No matter what happens, this would not stop the millions from buying the iconic smartphone when it launches in a few months.

[Also See: Chinese Media Brands Apple's iPhone As A Threat To National Security]


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