iPhone secretly tracks user location
April 20, 2011 · Posted in Techy News and Tips
A pair of researchers have found that Apple iPhones and iPads track users’ locations and store the data in an unencrypted file on the devices and on owners’ computers.
The data, which appears to have been collected starting with iOS 4, which Apple released last summer, is in a SQLite file on iPhones and iPads with 3G capability, said Pete Warden, the founder of Data Science Toolkit and a former Apple employee, and Alasdair Allan, a senior research fellow at the University of Exeter.
“iOS 4 logs up to 100 locations daily in unencrypted file on iPhone, iPad and syncing computers”
“If you’re not around, someone else can access the information on your home or work computer,” said Cluley.