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Detailed analysis of iPhone location data | The well-prepared mind
After reading Pete Warden’s iPhone Tracker FAQ and the article by Alex Levinson, I wanted to extract the precise location information from the consolidated.db file from my iPhone backups to see exactly how accurate the location data were, as well as to learn how frequently the location was being sampled and saved. Unfortunately, I had a rather busy week and wasn’t able to get around to it right away. Apple officially responded on Wednesday.
These are the maps made by iPhoneTracker - petewarden.github.com/iPhoneTracker/ using the data collected by my iPhone over the last 8 or 9 months. (Note: these are high resolution maps, I grabbed the sourcecode and tweaked the publicly available low-res code to display in much higher (and more potentially privacy destroying) resolution).
My iPhoneTracker Maps - a set on Flickr
I often travel internationally (with no data roaming) and I've noticed that the iPhone's A-GPS is incapable of determining my location when I arrive in a new place, even if I've pre-loaded my route/maps in the maps application prior to arrival.
Hacker News | Apple Q&A on gathering and use of location data (Apple Press Release)
This open-source application maps the information that your iPhone is recording about your movements.
petewarden/iPhoneTracker @ GitHub
class action filed
‘Sometimes a law is just on its face and unjust in its application.’ MARTIN LUTHER KING
IPrivacy4IT – Clarinette's blog
What's Good About iPhone's Location Tracking - Darkreading
Over the past week there has been a lot of time spent by seemingly outraged people finding that the iPhone tracks and records the user's location. The problem, as I see it, is that the file isn’t secure -- not that Apple was misusing the information, but there has yet been no identification of anyone misusing that information yet. Granted, now that folks know it is there, that will likely change.
Apple, Google summoned to Senate hearing on mobile device privacy
Senator Al Franken (D-MN) has called upon Apple and Google to participate in a hearing with the Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law in order to discuss consumer privacy.
Steve Jobs On Location Data: "We Don't Track Anyone"
Steve Jobs has fired off one of his characteristically terse emails in response to the furor around Apple keeping location data on iPhone users.
Google Android, Apple iPhone geolocation tracking flap: Disclosure is everything | ZDNet
Yes, Apple and Google are recording your geolocation data.Apple & Google Location Tracking: A Breakdown of the Geolocation Crisis | TechnoBuffalo
With mounting concerns regarding the privacy of mobile data, two researchers from the United Kingdom stumbled upon a potentially-scary cache of coordinates in the backup archives of their iOS devices earlier this week.“It didn’t take long for the blogosphere to respond to research presented on Wednesday that detailed a file in Apple iPhones and iPads unknown to the vast majority of its users that stored a long list of their time-stamped locations, sometimes with alarming detail. On Thursday, a forensics expert who sells software to law enforcement agencies gave a first-hand account why scrutiny of the location-tracking database is crucial.
No, iPhone location tracking isn’t harmless and here’s why – The Citizen Lab
Apple's patent location histories
WSJ.com Senior Technology Editor Julia Angwin reports Apple's iPhone and Google's Android regularly transmit user location data back to those companies, based on data analyzed by The Wall Street Journal. Apple Inc.'