iOS 8 tracks your physical activity by default

Bottom line for me - this feature is on by default. This should be an option. Deleting the data from the device should be available and it's not. Regardless of if the data was encrypted or not it's existence creates the potential for privacy violations. It's not far fetched to assume that your insurance company will inevitably ask you to share this info before issuing a policy. Isn't this blatant lack of concern for privacy why we're all here? I'm scared about the lack of our concern.

Install fitbit in ios7 on a iphone 5s. You will get the same result. I dont see this as a problem it doesnt track your gps only your steps.

Spying on you by default... A lot of people don't understand how much self-incriminating information there is in all that physical activity data. Imagine you're accused of committing a violent murder. And you own an iPhone. And you claim you were sleeping at that time. But your physical acitvity data shows otherwise.

I should say this is an iPhone 5s - I doubt the iPhone 5 has the features required to track steps.

Yeah, this isn&#x27;t new. This is what the M7 (and the M8 inside iPhone 6) does.<p>And more importantly, this data is never stored in the cloud and never leaves your device, according to Apple.