If the thought of venturing out without your mobile fills you with dread, make sure you’ve got nothing to hide.
Owners of iPhones are having their locations and movements secretly tracked and stored in a file that could be seen by a jealous spouse, it has emerged.
Researchers have discovered that the Apple device saves the user’s latitude and longitude, along with a time and date stamp.*
Secret surveillance: Privacy concerns have also been raised about the locations of iPhone users being able to be accessed on a map
It then copies the data to the owner’s computer whenever the two are synchronised.
This means anyone who stole the phone or gained access to the computer it is paired with could build a detailed picture of the owner’s movements.
Tracking device: Some users could have a year's location information stored. (Posed by model)
Although mobile phone networks routinely record the locations of customers’ handsets, this information is only available to police and other government agencies under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act.
In contrast, if a thief were to steal an iPhone, he could extract the location database directly.
It is understood the tracking started with Apple’s iOS 4 update, published in June 2010, meaning that some phones could contain almost a year’s worth of data on their owners’ whereabouts.
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