ROME - The case has opened an article by O'Reilly, and is one that a few seconds ago around the web. According to the researchers Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden, from version 4 on the OS of the iPhone and iPad (3G version) keeps track of positions and movements of the user, and data are saved in a hidden file that is resistant to the formatting of the apparatus.
The two have since made an application that allows you to graphically display this data on a geographical map, and although the findings are different from the user community of IOS are also several cases of people who complain about the failure. We are being spied on? The controversy on whether Apple is able to collect these data has exploded immediately.
The privacy is at risk? Sensitive information is sold to third parties? To understand just so happens really understand how location-based applications. The researchers Apple collects this data and even restore them later on backup devices. But Alex Levinson, a third data management expert forensic investigator, denied colleagues: Cupertino does not collect this information, and also, the file would not be indicted in the hidden depths of IOS, but would also not new.
Says Levinson: "The file already existed, although not in this form, and in later versions of the operating system has been modified position. This is a simple "log", a list of data for the iPhone to operate as it requires and nothing more. "For a number of reasons, Apple has had to move the file", and adds Levinson, "The file is not only not secret or provide any information.
But above all, each user must first approve an application's access to its geographical position, a consensus which can be interrupted at any time from the control panel of the device. " 
The two have since made an application that allows you to graphically display this data on a geographical map, and although the findings are different from the user community of IOS are also several cases of people who complain about the failure. We are being spied on? The controversy on whether Apple is able to collect these data has exploded immediately.
The privacy is at risk? Sensitive information is sold to third parties? To understand just so happens really understand how location-based applications. The researchers Apple collects this data and even restore them later on backup devices. But Alex Levinson, a third data management expert forensic investigator, denied colleagues: Cupertino does not collect this information, and also, the file would not be indicted in the hidden depths of IOS, but would also not new.
Says Levinson: "The file already existed, although not in this form, and in later versions of the operating system has been modified position. This is a simple "log", a list of data for the iPhone to operate as it requires and nothing more. "For a number of reasons, Apple has had to move the file", and adds Levinson, "The file is not only not secret or provide any information.
But above all, each user must first approve an application's access to its geographical position, a consensus which can be interrupted at any time from the control panel of the device. "
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