Comments on: How To: Disable or Reset Location Services for iPhone 2.0 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/07/28/how-to-disable-or-reset-location-services-for-iphone-20/ For people who dare to Phone Different. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:11:08 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: logan http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/07/28/how-to-disable-or-reset-location-services-for-iphone-20/comment-page-1/#comment-63256 logan Sat, 18 Jul 2009 07:04:30 +0000 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/?p=3518#comment-63256 <p>By turning off location settings, will this prevent my iphone 3g from being tracked and my text msgs?</p> By turning off location settings, will this prevent my iphone 3g from being tracked and my text msgs?

]]> By: H22kai http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/07/28/how-to-disable-or-reset-location-services-for-iphone-20/comment-page-1/#comment-11448 H22kai Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:27:07 +0000 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/?p=3518#comment-11448 <p>Rene! Loved this... very important and helpful. May be the most helpful yet (as I freak out about my privacy in regards to strangers being able to find me on the street and link me to whatever app I am using ex. Twitter.) Thank you!!!</p> Rene! Loved this… very important and helpful. May be the most helpful yet (as I freak out about my privacy in regards to strangers being able to find me on the street and link me to whatever app I am using ex. Twitter.) Thank you!!!

]]> By: Rene Ritchie http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/07/28/how-to-disable-or-reset-location-services-for-iphone-20/comment-page-1/#comment-11437 Rene Ritchie Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:57:56 +0000 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/?p=3518#comment-11437 <p>@Michael: I use Twitter, but I purposely never use it or any status microblog (Facebook, Pownce, Jaiku, etc.) to project my location. I consider that bad from both a privacy and a security point of view. I don't need someone knowing when I leave my house so they can rob it, or my precise geographic location so they can approach me announced (my real friends know where I am absent web status).</p> <p>However, I spent many years informing myself about personal protection, so that's colored my thinking a lot.</p> <p>What I do use Twitter for is to share information about what's happening in the industries in which I'm involved, and to network in general.</p> <p>Call me MiniScoble :)</p> @Michael: I use Twitter, but I purposely never use it or any status microblog (Facebook, Pownce, Jaiku, etc.) to project my location. I consider that bad from both a privacy and a security point of view. I don’t need someone knowing when I leave my house so they can rob it, or my precise geographic location so they can approach me announced (my real friends know where I am absent web status).

However, I spent many years informing myself about personal protection, so that’s colored my thinking a lot.

What I do use Twitter for is to share information about what’s happening in the industries in which I’m involved, and to network in general.

Call me MiniScoble :)

]]> By: Michael http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/07/28/how-to-disable-or-reset-location-services-for-iphone-20/comment-page-1/#comment-11421 Michael Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:21:23 +0000 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/?p=3518#comment-11421 <p>Isn't this the point of twitter. I never got it in the first place - but isn't highlighting your every move (or movement) for the world to see kind of an admission you don't really value your privacy?</p> <p>I'm surprised that anyone with the thoughtfulness to worry about location services actually uses twitter. Both seem pretty creepy to me.</p> Isn’t this the point of twitter. I never got it in the first place – but isn’t highlighting your every move (or movement) for the world to see kind of an admission you don’t really value your privacy?

I’m surprised that anyone with the thoughtfulness to worry about location services actually uses twitter. Both seem pretty creepy to me.

]]> By: Scott Harris http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/07/28/how-to-disable-or-reset-location-services-for-iphone-20/comment-page-1/#comment-11401 Scott Harris Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:15:26 +0000 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/?p=3518#comment-11401 <p>Why is it that every time I want to use GPS I have to restart my iPhone? Anybody else having this issue?</p> Why is it that every time I want to use GPS I have to restart my iPhone? Anybody else having this issue?

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