Apple IPhone, IPad Tracking User Whereabouts, Researcher Says
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Apple Inc.’s iPhone and iPad track and store the movements of people using the devices, according to a report by O’Reilly Radar.
Apple’s iOS 4 operating system for the iPhone and iPad 3G logs latitude-longitude coordinates along with the time of the visit, according to Alasdair Allan, a senior research fellow in astronomy at the University of Exeter in England, who co-wrote the study with Pete Warden. The findings were posted on the website owned by O’Reilly Media, a Sebastopol, California-based publisher that organizes technology trade conferences.