This got lots of attention today, in the Washington Post and in The Guardian. A file full of unencrypted GPS coordinates in your IPhone or IPad, ready to be picked. Technical details discussed here. A field day for attorneys, a lawyer friend of mine suggests, Clear privacy violation, and I have to think that this will be corrected in the next version of the OS. Apparently Apple folks are not THAT smart.
Update: GigaOm reports that police are already using the data.
Update: More detail: Apple is not tracking your exact locations, not even the cell towers you used. So the information is not quite as private as was thought.
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