Apple: We ?must have? comprehensive user location data on you

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Apple: We ?must have? comprehensive user location data on you

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April 25, 2011

Security researchers unveiled this week that Apple?s iPhone was actively logging the whereabouts of users, storing location data into an easily assessible file on the device.
But it?s not just iPhones that are keeping track of their users.

Apple?s iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, the iPhone 4, and iPad models are also keeping track of consumers whereabouts. Mac computers running Snow Leopard and even Windows computers running Safari 5 are being watched.
The question is why?

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iPhone Location Data Already Used By Cops

iPhone Location Data Already Used By Cops

iPhone Location Data Already Used By Cops
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Bloomberg

April 25, 2011

When British programmers Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden took the stage at the Where 2.0 conference to unveil their work on iPhone location tracking, it was clear they had some big news on their hands. The duo outlined what they called ?the discovery that your iPhone and 3G iPad [are] regularly recording the position of your device into a hidden file.? Their findings started a firestorm of media coverage.

But as the details came to light, one researcher was left scratching his head?because he?d already made the same discovery last year.

Alex Levinson, 21, works at the Rochester Institute of Technology in western New York, and he has been studying forensic computing and working with Katana Forensics, which makes tools for interrogating iOS devices.

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JUST IN CASE THERE ARE THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW

JUST IN CASE THERE ARE THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW

Amendment IV

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.