Find My Friends is a new application for iDevices recently launched by the Apple company that allows users to discover the location of their friends using GPS and an Internet connection. A man stands up that he used the new application from Apple to prove that his wife is cheating on him. He claims that he installed the application in her new iPhone 4S and using it he permanently tracked his wife's location until he caught her lying based on the last location displayed in the application. Of course, everything could be a prank or Find My Friends could show the location incorrectly, but the main idea is different, users can be tracked very easily if they don't know which applications are open in their own terminals.
I got my wife a new 4s and loaded up find my friends without her knowing. She told me she was at her friends house in the east village. I've had suspicions about her meeting this guy who lives uptown. Lo and behold, Find my Friends has her right there. I just texted her asking where she was and the dumb b!otch said she was on 10th Street!! Thank you Apple, thank you App Store, thank you all. These beautiful treasure trove of screen shots are going to play well when I meet her a$$ at the lawyer's office in a few weeks.
Cases like this will certainly be repeated and this attempt to prove infidelity or to track someone is a violation of human rights because no one has the right to track our location. Probably for many Romanians the problem is insignificant, just like the one regarding location logging in iOS, but for Apple, an international scandal could arise as soon as the big publications find out about this story. I, for one, expect that in the following weeks, various other stories of this kind will appear, followed by anti-Find My Friends articles in the world's major publications.
