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iPhones and 3G iPads record location data without permission
Posted by Philipp Esselbach on: 04/20/2011 05:51 PM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]
iPhones and 3G iPads running iOS 4 have been intentionally storing the user?s locations and time stamps without permission, two researchers have found.
From Silicon Republic:
iPhones and 3G iPads record location data without permission
According to researchers Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden, these 3G-enabled iOS devices store the user’s location data on a file called “consolidated.db.” This database contains latitude-longitude co-ordinates, along with a time stamp for each location.
The collection of data, which can hold tens of thousands of mostly accurate co-ordinate points, appears to have started with the release of iOS 4.
The collection of data, which can hold tens of thousands of mostly accurate co-ordinate points, appears to have started with the release of iOS 4.
iPhones and 3G iPads record location data without permission
