Wednesday 20 April 2011

iOS 4 found to be saving unnecessary location histories

iPhones and 3G iPads are regularly saving position data to a hidden file, say two presenters at today's part of the 2011 Where 2.0 conference in Santa Clara, California. The file, consolidated.db, is reported to have a "long list" of stored locations and time stamps, and moreover carry it over between backups and device migrations. A history can potentially hold "tens of thousands" of data points stretching back to the introduction of iOS 4....

Source: http://feeds.macnn.com/click.phdo?i=24bdc44a48dc1814afab9ea2a09e5a2a

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