Ironic that Apple was anti-1984 in 1984 - Now they added 'Big Brother' - Your iPhone is secretly tracking you all the time

That should be our chice, not Apple's. They have been consorting with Al Gore and Obama too long!

Digital Life - Your iPhone is secretly tracking you all the time

By Rosa Golijan

Your iPhone has a hidden feature: It tracks and records your location constantly whether you want it to or not. What? You wish it wouldn't do that without your knowledge or consent? Too bad, because there's not much you can do about the tracking feature right now.

Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden, a pair of security researchers, recently discovered that iPhones — as well as 3G-enabled iPads — running iOS 4 constantly record and store their users' locations in unencrypted files. These files are basically very long lists of latitude-longitude coordinates and timestamps, and they can be found on the devices themselves as well as within the software backups saved on users' computers.

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