Mobile security services — tracking your device, or using your device to track others, or making sure you know who is tracking you — is a hot topic these days.
Those services include "Family Safety" GPS tracking within pre-defined boundaries; "Battery Doctor" to manage battery life; "Cloud Backup" for contacts and photos; and "Device Found" which tracks your device and activates an alarm on it.
It rocks many of the same features as MobileMe's Find My iPhone: it locates and tracks your device via Google Maps and allows you to perform a remote wipe, but it does so much more.
The free app, which was released for the iPhone in 2014, uses the sensors in your device to track your movements and sleep.
"You could imagine having the device track your eyeballs so it knows what you are looking at - so you could look at a movie and say 'I want to watch that.'.
"If the device can track your position in a room, you could leave the room where the device is and even walk outside.
With the updated language, the company addresses users' concerns over how certain personal data is used, stating that it asks for user's explicit permission before doing things like scanning your contacts, accessing the microphone, or tracking your specific device location, for example.
A court ruling in Wisconsin means that police there can track your movements with a GPS device without a warrant.
There's no facial recognition and instead just a technology called 2D pose that runs locally on the device to track your position so the camera can follow you if you move around.
Runtastic also announced the Libra scale, a BMI, bone mass, muscle mass, and BMR/AMR calculating scale that connects to an iOS device to track your weight and important statistics.
