I noticed this for the first time on Friday after updating to ios7. I don't use Apple Maps - only Google Maps on my iPhone. I also have never, in the history of this phone, used the maps to search for my work.
However, my phone is smart enough to know that during the week I should be in Gardena, at work. Not at my apartment. Friday was an odd day because I went to work at 9 but had to return to my house to grab some power supplies for one of the clients hard drives.
Both times it passively informed me of my driving time without me asking for it or ever telling it I had a habit of driving to Gardena every day. It had just been working in the background.
So Hubski? Cool feature or downright creepy?
That's creepy on a whole new level. I'm on a call with Coke's team regarding a new project as I type this....
> for some reason I doubt that this is the case with iOS7. Most definitely not the case. I've been thinking about this problem for a while and here is my conclusion. 1. The future of modern post-industrial living will undoubtedly generate massive amounts of data on each individual person. 2. This data must be protected, both from individuals/groups who would use it for personal gain, and from government entities that are above constitutional law and oversight. 3. This data (hopefully) will be personally controlled so that if Taco Bell wants to know when I'm near a store, I have to consciously agree to let them have access to that data, and I will receive some sort of reward for giving them that information. Then this process becomes a voluntary market transaction, rather than a completely unmanageable and hegemonic system.
That is amazing. I forsee these things getting people in trouble in the future. "You said you were at Danny's house? Did he move in the strip club on the corner of Dirty and 157th? Because that's where your phone said you were."
I can't find the article through surface level searching, but I remember reading something that showed that this is already the case. Using Apple's Find My Friends App, a wife found out her spouse was cheating on her. He had forgotten about the app, and it revealed that he was at the woman's house. I just try to steer clear from location-based apps. Except for Ingress...that game is so cool, especially for an on-the-go Campus Kid like me.
Definitely cool. I was impressed when I found my Android phone doing this. I think it's useful and not just some whiz-bang feature. I think your argument for creepy is because you haven't used the Apple maps and may see it as a privacy concern since you didn't approve it to do this tracking. That was probably in your OS agreement. If you want to turn it off, there are instructions here.
My reason for feeling a bit creeped out is because it is tracking my location in the background without me knowing about it. Granted, I should've known and I should've looked back through every single setting when I updated. Mainly I just chose not to think about it until I was confronted with it front and center. I also wonder what other features are tracking different things without me knowing about it.
I actively tried to get the 'Google Now' app/thing to work for me to help my scheduling but it wouldn't. There is a bus stop a short walk from my place and I wanted it to let me know when it would come on a given day (it does seem to know the public transit schedule). It's been an exercise in frustration more than anything, because I know that it knows a lot about me but it refuses to assist me in anything other than its own time or way. For instance I will be walking around and it will tell me when the next buses are coming for nearby stops, except for the one that I live by. It has also guessed where I 'work' (go to school, whatever, I can forgive that) and what times I'm usually there, so it will tell me when I need to leave and what route to take at any time except when I actually need to leave, i.e. in the morning. I wouldn't necessarily mind having a system that notices my patterns and notifies my of when I need to leave, what route, what the traffic is like, etc if it would actually work and not annoying the hell out of me. And I'll be damned if I can ever get voice recognition to work.
Yeah I noticed it pretty recently as well. Although, I don't know how on earth it thinks it will only take me 40 mins to get to work when it usually takes 45-60 mins every morning.