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Apple Logging Locations of All iPhone Users

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the are-you-scared-yet dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Guardian reports that researchers have found a hidden file on all iPhones, iPads and any computers to which they synchronize, logging timestamped latitude and longitude coordinates of the user since June 2010. A tool is available on their website to check on your own."

3 of 591 comments (clear)

  1. Much worse than Google's WiFi tracking by schwit1 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Tracking people's whereabouts is truly evil. Wait until the divorce lawyers start subpoena them for location data to help their clients.

  2. Re:The data is on your phone by FhnuZoag · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's impossible to determine where this data has been sent. Any app has access to it. Access to this file itself is not logged. It could be sitting on the hard drives of any number of app producers.

  3. Re:ummm by Abstrackt · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Apples 1984 commercial was the first thing I thought of as well. The irony is almost too much to bear.

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