The lamest excuse ever: Apple blames iPhone tracking file on ‘bug’

(CNN) — After a week of silence, Apple on Wednesday responded to widespread complaints about iPhones and iPads tracking their users’ whereabouts by saying “the iPhone is not logging your location” and announcing an upcoming mobile software update.

The next version of Apple’s iOS will store data about a phone’s location for only seven days instead of for months, as was previously the case, the company says. Apple blamed the fact that so much location data had been stored on users’ phones and computers on a software “bug.”

“The reason the iPhone stores so much data is a bug we uncovered and plan to fix shortly,” the company said in a news release. “We don’t think the iPhone needs to store more than seven days of this data.”
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“When I turn off Location Services, why does my iPhone sometimes continue updating its Wi-Fi and cell tower data from Apple’s crowd-sourced database?” the company asks itself in a Q&A posted on Apple’s media relations site.

“It shouldn’t,” the company says. “This is a bug, which we plan to fix shortly.”

If “the iPhone is not logging your location”, how did the data base with all of those locations in get into the memory – immaculate inception? I realize that Apple thinks its user base is a group of morons who will buy anything with the company’s logo on it, but they are not going to “buy” an incredibly stupid and obviously wrong statement like that.

We already know that Apple included the feature so it could sell location-based advertizing. Apple says it is doing it in their user licensing.

There may be a bug that causes the data base to grow until it fills up storage, but the software was designed to track the user.

The Pensacola News Journal tells me that Santa Rosa gun law in Senate’s sights

TALLAHASSEE — The Florida House on Tuesday passed a bill that likely will force Santa Rosa County officials to repeal an ordinance that silenced a makeshift gun range on Soundside Drive in Gulf Breeze or face fines up to $5,000.

The bill has strained relations between Santa Rosa County commissioners and freshman lawmaker Matt Gaetz, R-Fort Walton, who sponsored the legislation and represents a portion of the county.

The legislation, which must still pass the Florida Senate, gives teeth to an existing law that prohibits local governments to pass firearm regulations. The Gaetz bill not only mandates $5,000 fines, it also says those “harmed” by local gun regulations can sue local governments and receive up to $100,000.

The officials in Santa Rosa county think that they were being trashed because Gaetz lives in Okaloosa county. They are wrong.

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