{"id":320,"date":"2011-04-20T17:41:48","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T15:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/visurus.wordpress.com\/?p=320"},"modified":"2011-04-20T17:41:48","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T15:41:48","slug":"ios4-devices-track-and-store-their-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/2011\/04\/ios4-devices-track-and-store-their-location\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS4 devices track and store their location"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a presentation by two UK researchers at <a href=\"http:\/\/where2conf.com\/where2011\">Where 2.0<\/a> conference, iOS4 devices constantly track and timestamp their location and dump that data into a file, which is shared with your desktop computer if you choose to backup your iPhone&#8217;s content. This presents a major potential for privacy breach.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For some phones, there could be almost a year&#8217;s worth of data stored, as the recording of data seems to have started with Apple&#8217;s iOS 4 update to the phone&#8217;s operating system, released in June 2010.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The two researchers, <a href=\"http:\/\/where2conf.com\/where2011\/public\/schedule\/speaker\/2216\">Alasdair Allan<\/a> and Pete Warden, offer an <a href=\"http:\/\/petewarden.github.com\/iPhoneTracker\/\">iPhone Tracker<\/a> for download which let&#8217;s you retrieve and analyse the location data your iOS device has stored.<\/p>\n<p>More information at <a href=\"http:\/\/radar.oreilly.com\/2011\/04\/apple-location-tracking.html\">O&#8217;Reilly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1088\" height=\"612\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GynEFV4hsA0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2011\/04\/20\/researchers-find-ios-4-records-your-location-in-system-file-syn\/\">Engadget<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2011\/04\/20\/ios-devices-secretly.html\">BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a presentation by two UK researchers at Where 2.0 conference, iOS4 devices constantly track and timestamp their location and dump that data into a file, which is shared with your desktop computer if you choose to backup your iPhone&#8217;s content. This presents a major potential for privacy breach. For some phones, there could &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/2011\/04\/ios4-devices-track-and-store-their-location\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">iOS4 devices track and store their location<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[34,52],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-note","tag-data-protection","tag-geo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pPwF-5a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}