Apple closes the iTunes store for iPhone users who don't share location

Re:Apple closes the iTunes store for iPhone users who don't ... by huhtenberg on Wednesday June 23, 2010 @04:08PM (#1456152)

That's a hugely misleading comment.

You can opt out of receiving location-based ads, but you cannot opt out of sharing your location. Just read the terms of http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4228 carefully.

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Re:Apple closes the iTunes store for iPhone users who don't ... by neonfunk on Wednesday June 23, 2010 @05:01PM (#1456319)

In fact, you can completely disable location services with one switch. (Settings --> General --> Location Services --> Off)

If you prefer a more granular approach, all apps (including Apple's own), allow you to disable location services for that app alone. In addition, all 3rd party apps, on first requesting location data, require the user to explicitly opt-in.

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Re:Apple closes the iTunes store for iPhone users who don't ... by neonfunk on Wednesday June 23, 2010 @06:03PM (#1456561)

Is there an iAd daemon?

Anyway, I'd hope that explicitly disabling all location services would do just that. If headless apps were still powering on the GPS and triangulating cell towers and wifi... well, that'd certainly be misleading. But I doubt that's the case.

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Re:Apple closes the iTunes store for iPhone users who don't ... by Tyrannosaurs on Thursday June 24, 2010 @04:21AM (#1457596)

If it were powering on the GPS that would be significant. Aside from the privacy perspective, many people power down GPS to save the battery which is something which should absolutely be something which remains under user control.

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