Apple: We Must have Comprehensive User Location Data on You

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Security researchers unveiled this week that Apple’s iPhone was actively logging the whereabouts of users, storing location data into an easily assessable 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?

The company has remained silent after researchers Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden revealed this Wednesday that the iPhone was storing logs of users’ geographic coordinates in a hidden file.

In response the company’s general counsel Bruce Sewall wrote a letter explaining its practice, and shedding light on the rationale the company uses to monitor users.

“To provide the high quality products and services that its customers demand, Apple must have access to the comprehensive location-based information,” Sewall told Congress in the letter.

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  • Will

    Do you think they know I am using my iPad to respond to this article while I'm in my bathroom taking a dump? If so they can keep track of my bathroom habits and send a report to my doctor to let him know I keep a regular schedule. My bowels and colon should be fine. The government is trillions of dollars in debt, but they would rather spend millions of dollars to find out who is using steroids in baseball than look at the housing market and financial market that was about to blow up in their face. Now we are still facing serious problems with our economy, our housing, our banking, our debt and three wars and all they want to do is track to see when I'm taking a poop.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jG9XX_Vmw8 Ed

    Don't forget facebook is a huge fan of obama too. How many people put their entire life on facebook constantly. Tie those together; apple, google, facebook and the government and they know everything about everyone on the planet.

  • will

    I'd bet the government is behind this. We're being Socialized friend's. If you don't believe me,just keep your head buried with your Butt in the air.

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