iOS 4 tracks your every move, backs up with iTunes
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Two UK researchers have made a shocking discovery. The iOS 4 tracks wherever your phone goes and saves it into an unencrypted database on your phone, then when synced with iTunes, backs it up on your computer. When restoring from a backup or setting up a new phone, the location database is kept and moved onto the new phone. The fact that it's backed up, restored or moved to new phones, makes the researchers believe that it's an intended function, instead of an oversite.
When the originally discovered the file, they thought it'd be a couple days worth of data, just of when they activated the GPS features. They came to discover that it was over a years worth of information, starting from when they switched over to iOS 4.
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The file is completely unprotected and with a little bit of tech knowledge is accessibly on both the phone and the backing up computer, making both giant security risks. I'm sure that Apple will eventually come up some excuse for doing this, but the fact remains, why does Apple need to track where every one of their phones are? Or more importantly, where the humans that use them are at?
Sources: Endgadget, iPhoneTracker
