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April 20, 2011

Report: iPhones track users’ every move

There's only one thing to say about that: DUDE GET A DROID!

Amplify’d from blogs.ajc.com

Report: iPhones track users’ every move

Everyone loves their iPhone, and the super-popular device loves secretly tracking your location.

According to an article on the tech site O’Reilly Radar, the new Apple iOS 4 appears to log customer locations and timestamps to a file called “consolidated.db.”

The file exists on iPhones and the 3G iPad and is secretly copied to the owner’s computer when the two are synchronized.

A visualization of the location information captured on an iPhone, the author's trip from DC to New York.

Potentially, the unencrypted information stored on your phone or computer could be subpoenaed and used by law enforcement agencies.

Or, as a commenter said on the O’Reilly site, it’s getting more difficult for criminals to have cool phones.

Read more at blogs.ajc.com
 

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