Your iPhone Knows Where You Are
A story broke on Wired today about how the iOS devices are taking your location and storing it in a file. One reporter with Wired posted a screen shot showing everywhere his iPhone has been in the last year.
And this is news how exactly?
If you’ve ever used a smartphone then you’ve probably been asked if an app can use your location. That alone should have told you that you can be tracked. Do you realize how easy it is to write that data into a file? Seriously, it only takes one line of code.
And to be fair to Apple, it does make sense from the programmer’s POV to record the data.
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