Sleep well, my precious. I know where you live.
That’s the gist of a new warning sticker that Verizon Wireless plans to slap on its smartphones. Verizon revealed its plans in a letter to Congress, as noted by Forbes. Here’s what the warning label actually says (I may have enjoyed some creative license above):
“This device is …
Listen up, world. Steve has something he wants to say:
“Apple is not tracking the location of your iPhone. Apple has never done so and has no plans to ever do so.”
It doesn’t happen very often but Apple does, every once in a while, make a public statement about something that isn’t directly related to new product …
Two men in Florida have filed a class action lawsuit against Apple over the recently-reported hidden database file found on iPhones and 3G-enabled iPads that periodically records users’ location coordinates.
The suit claims that “users of Apple products have … no way to prevent Apple from collecting this information because even if …
Apple still has no official statements on the issue of iPhone location tracking, but that hasn’t stopped Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs from reportedly throwing down a few words of his own.
A reader of Macrumors claims to have e-mailed Jobs with concerns:
“Could you please explain the necessity of the passive location-tracking tool
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In case you hadn’t heard, there’s a little file on your iPhone called “consolidated.db” that records your whereabouts every so often.
Some people are upset about it and some people are saying it’s not a big deal. However you perceive it, you can take a simple step to ensure that the location information recorded by your iPhone doesn’t …
That iPhone of yours has apparently been storing your whereabouts to a file that gets backed up every time you synchronize your phone with iTunes. The same happens if you’ve got a 3G-enabled iPad, too.
As detailed in a post on O’Reilly Radar, two developers discovered the following:
“All iPhones appear to log your location to a file
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