If you don't want your locations tracked on an iPhone by the default iOS7 settings, just turn it off. Doing that saves a little battery and preserves your location privacy, but will make navigation and mapping a little less accurate.
Settings>Privacy>Location Services>System Services (at the bottom of the location services listings)>Frequent Locations> Hit the green button and turn it ***Off** Blackberry has tons of location services app that will allow you to track the location of the Blackberry remotely but if you don't want Blackberry tracking your locations, just turn that off. http://docs.blackberry.com/en/smartphone_users/deliverables/32608/Turn_off_location_aiding_or_location_data_61_1478567_11.jsDid you know that your iPhone is tracking and logging all of your movements? The city, address and the amount of time that you've spent at each location. This is a little scary for those of us trying to be discreet!
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even if you turn off the gps and tracking. Even time you turn your phone back on it will ping the nearest cell in a 12 seconds.
if the nsa wants you, they got you
although we're moving in that direction, NSA is not connected to every law enforcement tracking effort...yet although no doubt they are tracking every communication and FISA and the FISC appellate courts are rubber stamp jokes.
Burner phones are fine for making calls. But if your iPhone is in your pocket, and powered on, it's still tracking your every move.
I'm pretty sure the whole premise of the original post wasn't the worry over NSA, but rather the even better detective work of a SO who is checking her list and contacting her divorce attorney....Simply go in and clear the history every day guys, if your concerned about big brother watching you, I'm fairly certain you have bigger issues than this little hobby
Tomorrow in NYC MSFT in a suit filed by MSFT against the US gov will argue in federal district court (SDNY) against the U.S. government's right to access YOUR EMAIL stored in the Cloud on their servers in Ireland. While this case is between MSFT and the feds over turning over email on their servers in a criminal case, the opinions that result from this case might well apply to all email including Yahoo, popular Google Gmail and various ISP's like Comcast, Verizon, and ATT to name a few big ones. This case will be worth watching because whatever happens will be appealed to the 2nd Circuit and probably after that get cert. to the Supreme Court.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/11/technology/microsoft-protests-order-for-email-stored-abroad.html
We're Fighting the Feds over your Email [tomorrow in NYC] WSJ by Brad Smith, General Counsel MSFT
As to the NSA, the opinions in this case could apply if they are broad enough on appeal.
Also while you can clear email on your phone, and history of your calls and locations and stop the record of your locations on any phone, I'm not sure you can stop what pings towers and all of this info is stored on servers as well which *Probably could be** subpoenaed in Troy's hypothetical divorce case.
And even if somoene doesn't have more significant issues than a hobby, the current invasion of privacy by the government that is going unchecked should concern you.
The best day to day coverage I've ever seen of this by someone who works incredibly hard on it is at www.emptywheel.net Check it out if you're interested in any of this, because the detail of how much is being collected unchecked and the evidence of it is pretty amazing.
My original intent was to let the hobbyist, with significant others, know that it's possible for their "better half" to know, or find out, exactly where, and when, they've been hanging out.