iOS4 - Your iPhone Is recording Your Movements
Date: Wednesday, April 20 @ 23:23:21 UTC
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Whilst Apple are celebrating a massive rise in profits, up 113% over the same period last year, a group of UK researchers have discovered a hitherto undocumented feature of iOS4, it has been watching you.
For the last 10mths, if you own an iPhone or an iPad3G, it has been quietly storing your location history complete with with timestamps.
The data is backed up every time you sync and if you restore a new phone, the location history is silently restored as well.
Whilst the location data appears to be based on cell triangulation rather than GPS, its discovery has sparked new privacy concerns, particularly as, when stored on your computer, it can be easily read by anyone with access.
The researchers have even created a simple app that will read the location database file and show your history on a map to demonstrate how much data has been stored.
By way of an example, the image above is from my iPad. I've never visited some of the supposed locations so it's clearly far from perfect. There is no suggestion that the data is being sent to Apple but everyone wants to know why the data is being collected in the first place?
Source: iPhoneTracker
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