Two researchers have revealed, Wednesday, April 20, the Apple mobile devices have a system to monitor and keep track of the movement of their users. According to security experts Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden, information such as latitude and longitude of the users of iPhone 3G or iPad, associated with time information, are recorded on a file.
"The most immediate problem is that these data are stored in an easily readable on your device," they said. Almost a year INFORMATION COLLECTED Unlike location-based services, such as Foursquare, users can not disable it. The two researchers have even developed a program for visualizing geospatial data in mobile devices from Apple.
"Alasdair looked if there was a tracking system on phones like Android and found none," said Pete Warden, quoted by British newspaper leGuardian. For some users, there could be nearly a year of data collected because the backups seem to have begun with the arrival of version 4 of the IOS operating system, released in June, notes the newspaper.
According to two experts, the signs of localization are obtained from Apple via triangulation from phone masts operators. "This is not as precise as GPS but it probably consumes less energy," stressed Mr. Allan and Warden, for whom the Apple system is another fundamental problem: "The telephone operators collect similar data, but they are secured through their firewall.
We also need a court order to access it." "DISTURBING DISCOVERY" The purpose of safeguarding such data terminals Apple is still undetermined. "Apple has no doubt the spirit of new features, requiring a travel history. But it is just pure speculation," the two experts argue, for whom the data are not vraissemblablement transmitted to third parties.
Quoted by the Guardian, Simon Davies, head of the group Privacy International, for its part considers that this "discovery is worrisome. The location is one of the most sensitive of people's lives. Just imagine the places where people come in people at night. " United States, the Democratic senator from Minnesota, Al Franken, sent a letter to Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO, requesting details of its geolocation system. 
"The most immediate problem is that these data are stored in an easily readable on your device," they said. Almost a year INFORMATION COLLECTED Unlike location-based services, such as Foursquare, users can not disable it. The two researchers have even developed a program for visualizing geospatial data in mobile devices from Apple.
"Alasdair looked if there was a tracking system on phones like Android and found none," said Pete Warden, quoted by British newspaper leGuardian. For some users, there could be nearly a year of data collected because the backups seem to have begun with the arrival of version 4 of the IOS operating system, released in June, notes the newspaper.
According to two experts, the signs of localization are obtained from Apple via triangulation from phone masts operators. "This is not as precise as GPS but it probably consumes less energy," stressed Mr. Allan and Warden, for whom the Apple system is another fundamental problem: "The telephone operators collect similar data, but they are secured through their firewall.
We also need a court order to access it." "DISTURBING DISCOVERY" The purpose of safeguarding such data terminals Apple is still undetermined. "Apple has no doubt the spirit of new features, requiring a travel history. But it is just pure speculation," the two experts argue, for whom the data are not vraissemblablement transmitted to third parties.
Quoted by the Guardian, Simon Davies, head of the group Privacy International, for its part considers that this "discovery is worrisome. The location is one of the most sensitive of people's lives. Just imagine the places where people come in people at night. " United States, the Democratic senator from Minnesota, Al Franken, sent a letter to Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO, requesting details of its geolocation system.
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