When I first bought an iPad app I became cautious - it wanted to save my details of the service I was subscribing to. If I shared a photo or posted a status update to Facebook or Twitter, it wanted to retain my login details for “easy and quick access in the future” – or so it says.
But where is the information being stored? After all, the iPad can connect to the web via WiFi and the mobile network (depending on the model) so what control do I have as to what is being saved and, more worryingly, where?
With my Camera being able to save geo-tagging meta data in my photos via the GPS function, it knows where I was when I took the photo and makes reference to the location in the data tagged in the hidden data saved with the photo file. Scary.
So if I transfer the photo to my iPad and then fire it off to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr (or any of dozens of other places we can share photos – leaving a live, frame by frame, journal of our whereabouts) anyone can see that at that moment I was “wherever I was” and therefore I am not at home, I am not in my office…
Isn’t it a bit like saying “I’m out taking photos – the key is under the mat and the cash is in the sugar bowl in the top-right cupboard in the kitchen”?
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