The question is not really Apple having this app on a product. The real question is what the government can do about it. Can the police now search the phone for this information?<\/p>\n
On Daily Tech: Apple is Tracking iPhone, iPad Users’ Location; Easily Mapped With OS X App<\/a>:<\/p>\n Apple users — big brother Jobs is watching you<\/p>\n Pete Warden and Alasdair Allan, a pair of security researchers, have made a discovery about Apple Inc.’s (AAPL) popular iPhone and iPad devices. According to an in depth study they performed, Apple not only tracks its iPhone and iPad users’ every move, but it stores that information in a local file.<\/p>\n According to the researchers, the feature popped up with the release of iOS 4. <\/p>\n It has been known for some time that the iPhones collect data on their user’s position and uses it to target iAds at them. Apple had received a great deal of criticism for doing that. But nobody knew just how far Apple had gone in violating its users\u2019 privacy — until now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n LATimes: iPhone and iPad can track a user’s location history \/ Security researchers find a hidden data file in the Apple devices that can contain detailed records of user whereabouts.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" b2evALnk.b2WPAutP Continue reading