You Can't Hid from Mobile Geo-Tracking
"The latest revelation about Apple’s apparent practice of recording your iPhone’s location periodically and then sending the information to the Apple mother ship has a lot of people disturbed."
"For some reason, nobody seems as disturbed that Google is doing the same thing with its Android phones, perhaps because most people knew that Google was already doing some kind of location tracking when it drove around taking pictures and collecting WiFi information."
"Apple apparently collects the information and saves it in a file, which is then stored on your computer when you sync your iPhone or iPad. Android devices do something similar, although it’s not clear that they store anything on your computer. These locations and their respective time stamps are sent to Apple and Google, respectively. It’s not clear what either company does with this information."
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