Apple pledged that the company, has no plans to ever track iPhone users.EPIC has commended Apple for moving quickly to address this problem. For more information, if you need, is available (see EPIC: iPhone and Privacy and EPIC: Locational Privacy).
According to Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in response to growing public concern about the collection of location data with smartphones also smartpdevices and laptops.
The recent change was sparked by a research paper which revealed that Apple was routinely storing tracking data on Apple iPhones and iPads in a secret file "consolidated.db.
There's no immediate harm that would seem to come from the availability of this data. Nor is there evidence to suggest this data is leaving your custody. But why this data is stored and how Apple intends to use it — or not — are important questions that need to be explored.
Apple announced four changes to smartphones iOS 4. A hidden file in iOS 4 is regularly recording the position of devices.
Apple said it will limit the storage of locational data to one week; stop transferring locational data from the device to the user's computers, allow users to delete all locational data collection on the device; and encrypt the locational data stored on the device.The update should be available in the next few weeks.
Above for comparison, here is a Google Map showing the precise route I followed in Tunisia, says April 21, 2011 by Laura.
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