Got an iPhone or 3G iPad? Apple is recording your moves
Today at Where 2.0 Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden will announce the discovery that your iPhone, and your 3G iPad, is regularly recording the position of your device into a hidden file. Ever since iOS 4 arrived, your device has been storing a long list of locations and time stamps. We’re not sure why Apple is gathering this data, but it’s clearly intentional, as the database is being restored across backups, and even device migrations.
What makes this issue worse is that the file is unencrypted and unprotected, and it’s on any machine you’ve synched with your iOS device. It can also be easily accessed on the device itself if it falls into the wrong hands. Anybody with access to this file knows where you’ve been over the last year, since iOS 4 was released.
via jennydeluxe’s twitter: O’Reilly Radar
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Way too much hype suddenly about something we’ve known about for almost a year. Wired had a good article about the...
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And here I was just complaining that Apple won’t let me upgrade to OS4 because my phone is an old model (there’s no...
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I wonder if my Android does this. I’m cool with it if they give me the data. I
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