XO spying is so retrograde compared to the iPhone ;)

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Today's Guardian Excerpt:

Security researchers have discovered that Apple's iPhone keeps track of
where you go - and saves every detail of it to a secret file on the device which
is then copied to the owner's computer when the two are synchronised.

The file contains the latitude and longitude of the phone's recorded
coordinates along with a timestamp, meaning that anyone who stole the phone
or the computer could discover details about the owner's movements using a
simple program.

For some phones, there could be almost a year's worth of data stored, as the
recording of data seems to have started with Apple's iOS 4 update to the
phone's operating system, released in June 2010.

"Apple has made it possible for almost anybody - a jealous spouse, a private
detective - with access to your phone or computer to get detailed
information about where you've been," said Pete Warden, one of the
researchers.

Only the iPhone records the user's location in this way, say Warden and
Alasdair Allan, the data scientists who discovered the file and are
presenting their findings at the Where 2.0 conference in San Francisco
on Wednesday...

In Full:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/apr/20/iphone-tracking-prompts-privacy-fears

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