iPhones Secretly Tracking Users' Locations?

[Macinthetosh]

So I came across an article that reports iPhones are tracking users' locations since the release of iOS 4. At first I thought it was just an overreaction, but I downloaded the program referred to in the article, and it's quite accurate. Was anyone else aware of this?

Article:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/mobile/04/20/iphone.tracking/index.html?hpt=T1

Program:
http://petewarden.github.com/iPhoneTracker/

 

[xUKHCx]

Hi there, the story made it to the front page

https://www.macrumors.com/2011/04/2...ne-and-ipad-location-tracking-privacy-issues/

With relevant discussion thread here: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1139887/

I have closed this thread now to prevent duplicate discussions.