Apple Responds to Location Tracking Questions
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Apple has just released a statement, detailing how the company is using location data. This is an issue that we’ve covered extensively since researchers revealed last week that the iPhone contained a hidden file storing latitude, longitude, and timestamps.
In the statement, the company says, “Apple is not tracking the location of your iPhone. Apple has never done so and has no plans to ever do so.” Apple claims that the iPhone is not logging location, instead, it’s keeping a database of Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers around your current location (up to a hundred miles away). This is to help your iPhone quickly calculate its location when requested, for example, by an app. The iPhone uses a crowd-sourced database of Wi-Fi and cell tower data generated by tens of millions of iPhones uploading their geo-tagged locations, which Apple says is all anonymous and encrypted.
According to a Bloomberg report, a lawfirm named KamberLaw just filed a lawsuit against Apple for privacy rights infringement. The lawsuit is a direct consequence of an article ran by the Wall Street Journal over ten days ago, about how a slew of iOS apps collect and sell sensitive information about users of iOS-powered devices.
The German Government has gone on the offensive against Apple’s gathering of GPS location information from iPad and iPhone owners. According to a report by German magazine “
