April 20 (Bloomberg) - IPad and iPhone of Apple Inc., track and store the movement of people who use the devices, the report published by the O'Reilly Radar.
System of the iOS operating 4 Apple for the iPhone and iPad 3 G logs latitude-longitude coordinates with the time of the visit, according to Alasdair Allan, senior research fellow in astronomy at the University of Exeter in England, who co-authored the study with Pete Warden. The results were posted on the website owned by O'Reilly Media, Sebastopol, California editor who organizes conferences for technology trade.The follow-up, which is probably based on the location of nearby mobile phone towers raises security and privacy issues, Allan and prefect wrote. Information, which can total tens of thousands of data points, is not encrypted according to the authors, who would present the results today at the where 2.0 Conference in Santa Clara, no evidence of the California.There information is shared, according to the report. Mobile phone carriers have always had access to this information and that it be an order of the Court to make it accessible, the authors say.Steve Dowling, an Apple spokesman, did not immediately return a telephone call seeking comment.-Editors: Roman Bostick, James Callan
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