iPhone Tracker Secretly Records Your Location Data
Scientists have discovered a disturbing file within iDevices using iOS 4.0 and up. Pete Warden and Alasdair Allan are presenting their findings at the Where 2.0 conference in San Francisco today, and it will certainly be interesting to see how the industry responds.
The research group has worked on several location data visualization projects like the map of radiation levels in Japan. They’ve even researched other smartphones, including Google’s Android devices, for similar invasions of privacy. No other mobile OS that they’ve come across, logs a user’s location data like iOS.
Warden and Allen note that the file is moved onto new devices when an old one is replaced, and don’t believe that to be by accident. They speculate that Apple might have new features on the way that utilize the hidden data, but the absence of a notice to users or a setting to disable the tracking shows a real ignorance about privacy.
Not only could it be considered ignorance, it might be against the law. The Regulation of Investigatory Power Act says that standard consumer phones cannot record location data.
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