The famed Apple movie critic John Gruber of daring Fireball believes that the much talked about tracking down of user’s place data on the iphone is likely an oversight or a bug, which is mainly likely going to be fixed in the next iOS 4.3.3 / 4.4 update.
The huge concern of course, is why Apple is storing this information. I don’t have a conclusive answer, however my little-birdie-informed comprehending is that consolidated.db acts as a cache for place data, as well as that historical data ought to be getting culled however isn’t, either because of a bug or, much more likely, an oversight. I.e. somebody composed the code to cache place data however never composed code to cull non-recent entrances from the cache, to ensure that a database that’s implied to serve as a cache of your recent place data is instead a persistent log of your place history. I’d wager this gets fixed in the next iOS update.
In situation you don’t already know, safety and security researchers have exposed that iphone tracks user’s place as well as stores it in a trick hidden data which is duplicated to the computer when it’s synchronized with the device.
The data includes data about your latitude as well as longitude together with the timestamp. This info can be quickly accessed by jailbreaking the phone, unfortunately, on the computer even without that. Moreover, the data is not encrypted as well as can be checked out by just anybody utilizing a easy app.
Apple is yet to comment on this issue. If it truly is a bug, Apple is likely going to repair it in the next iOS update. Temporarily, you can utilize this jailbreak app offered on Cydia to avoid your iphone from recording all your locations.
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