The latest versions of iPhone from Apple and Android from Google are the new form of Big Brother, having secret sub-programs specially designed to collect, with an incredible frequency of once every few seconds, data about the location of the user. Also, information about the wireless internet networks in the area and other sensible details is collected every 12 hours. All the records are stored in batches that are afterwards sent several times every hour to the two companies.
Apple and Google are suspected to have created databases that could be used in the future to develop location-based services. Every person has movement habits that can be traced, statistically evaluated and used to stir his interest in a certain product or service on sale at a certain moment on his way. A more developed application allows advertising according to the real time location of any owner of an iPhone or Android.
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