Google(Android) and Apple(iPhone) Track Ur Location

[Archerr]

Apple Inc.'s iPhones and Google Inc.'s Android smartphones regularly transmit their locations back to Apple and Google, respectively, according to data and documents analyzed by The Wall Street Journal—intensifying concerns over privacy and the widening trade in personal data.

If you are a criminal then you should reconsider using the iPhone.

Apple this week separately has come under fire after researchers found that iPhones store unencrypted databases containing location information sometimes stretching back several months.

The discovery of this location file touched off a furor among iPhone owners who could see for the first time a trove of location data about themselves stored on their phones. The researchers, Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden, said that they had no evidence that the file was being transmitted to Apple.

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[samadoon-waaxid]

this is an old news,every app on my andrioid phone will ask a permission to my location when I install it,how could it take all these tech whizes around the world few years to find the alleged file

[Scarletmoon1]

Might be a lifesaver if you ever get kidnapped however....

[Archerr]

If you own a wireless modem, make sure you secure your wireless network or this could happen to you.

Buffalo, N.Y. -- Lying on his family room floor with assault weapons trained on him, shouts of "pedophile!" and "pornographer!" stinging like his fresh cuts and bruises, the Buffalo homeowner didn't need long to figure out the reason for the early morning wake-up call from a swarm of federal agents.
That new wireless router. He'd gotten fed up trying to set a password. Someone must have used his Internet connection, he thought.

"We know who you are! You downloaded thousands of images at 11:30 last night," the man's lawyer, Barry Covert, recounted the agents saying. They referred to a screen name, "Doldrum."

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