Windows Phone 7 Location Settings
Remember the lawsuit article we posted about Windows Phone 7 which claimed to track user’s location data without their approval/authorization ? Well claims on this lawsuit against Microsoft over Windows Phone location management have been proven true !The lawsuit which was filed earlier this month in a Seattle court has been proven, backed by analysis from a well known security researcher, according to who Windows Phone 7 allegedly sends user location info to Microsoft’s inference.location.live.net even if a user says “no” when prompted by the mobile operating system’s camera application.
Microsoft has denied the claims and is investigating the accusations.
“Microsoft is investigating the claims raised in the complaint,” explained a Microsoft spokesperson in a statement issued shortly after the lawsuit. “We take consumer privacy issues very seriously. Our objective was — and remains — to provide consumers with control over whether and how data used to determine the location of their devices are used, and we designed the Windows Phone operating system with this in mind.”
Rafael Rivera was the man who jailbreaked Windows Phone 7 and tested the camera app to find out whether Microsoft sends device location information to its servers without explicit user confirmation. Rivera explains that packets are sent to agps.location.live.net and several to Microsoft’s Location Inference service hosted at inference.location.live.net. Also other items include.
- OS Version
- Device Information
- Wireless access points around the device including MAC addresses and power levels
- Various GUID-based identifiers
via Winrumors.
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That’s not accurate. I’ve heard about this before. This is actually old news. Like a month old. Nothing has been proven true. Actually, people who have tried to reproduce Mr. Rivera’s work have shown that it was unsubstantiated, and in the documentation provided in Seattle, it does not actually PROVE anything. Check your sources and work on your English. If you are going to write pieces on tech, you should make sure your spelling is a bit more accurate.
The lawsuit in question asserts that the device transmits location data after a user has said “No” when prompted. This is not the case. If you turn off Location Services (a different setting than the search-specific location setting that’s pictured in this article), the device does not ping location servers.
Also, the article pic is misleading. Although the setting for search is on, the search app will not use location…it will prompt saying that Location Services are off.
the pic is just a mere illustration which most of the times is based/related on the article…it doesn’t necessarily need to always depict the article. Some of the articles sometimes don’t need them at all…yet we add for a visual appeal for you readers.
Unable to use the gps to locate my location
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