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

Found on International Business Times on Saturday, 23 April 2011
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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 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.

"By using any location-based services on your iPhone, you agree and consent to Apple's and its partners' and licensees' transmission, collection, maintenance, processing and use of your location data to provide such products and services," Sewall's letter reads.

Apple also stores the location information in a database only accessibly to Apple, the letter says.

"Only accessibly to Apple", eh? That's why Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden could access the data and use it to display every movement on a map? Sure, Apple can hide behind their EULA and trample on privacy. There is an easy way out: don't use anything made by Apple. This is just another perfectly fine reason to drop all their products.