Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 21st Apr 2011 21:59 UTC, submitted by Martin
There's a bit of a stink going on - even in major media - about something iOS 4's been doing. Apparently, iOS 4 has been storing a list of locations and timestamps to a hidden, but readable file in a standard database format. The locations are triangulated using cell towers, and generally aren't as accurate as for instance GPS. Still, the file is stored without any form of protection on both your iPhone as well as your desktop.
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Everyones talking about location data but its also logging ACCESS POINTS the Mac Address of the access point, timestamp of detection, coordinates including height accuracy, speed
See table WiFiLocation
CREATE TABLE WifiLocation (MAC TEXT, Timestamp FLOAT, Latitude FLOAT, Longitude FLOAT, HorizontalAccuracy FLOAT, Altitude FLOAT, VerticalAccuracy FLOAT, Speed FLOAT, Course FLOAT, Confidence INTEGER, PRIMARY KEY (MAC));
But google gets nailed for doing almost the same thing???
makes no sense!!