And if you were worried, then this shows you shouldn't be:

http://geothought.blogspot.com/2011/04/scoop-apples-...

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Sounds okay to me.

Anyway, so long as the info is not transmitted back to Apple there's no way anyone can get the info without having your phone or your computer.

In reply to a post by gilesjuk:

Who gives a toss anyway? If the police or anyone else wants your location at a particular point in time they can get logs from the phone company.

Bravo! Rational thinking at last!

Now that's what I call analysis...

It overwrites repeat data!

In reply to a post by billford:

You're scaremongering. Well, trying to- in practice you're just showing that you're a troll.

A mobile phone that didn't allow anyone to keep track of where it was would be of limited use... and as for Snow Leopard and Safari, it's up to you- if you're that paranoid then just turn Location Services off.

I think you'd have to do the same in Windows?

Yeah, that's it -scaremongering by commenting on what's actually happening. A bit different to other scaremongers who comment on what isn't actually happening. Of course the iPhone isn't spying on you, that's why it creates a log on your PC and makes sure it's backed up. After all, if you've done nothing wrong, you've got nothing to worry about.

However, it does look like it's recording your location history and the two researchers were quite right to raise their concerns. By making the app public, they made it easy for others to research and discuss the issue - on discussion forums.

How revolutionary.

How scary.

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

However, it does look like it's recording your location history and the two researchers were quite right to raise their concerns. By making the app public, they made it easy for others to research and discuss the issue - on discussion forums.

I'm sure the owners of the devices are very grateful for an app that tells them the last time they visited a location, even if most of them are imprecise and some of them are wrong.

Little bit of advice- just quit while you're losing...

In reply to a post by billford:

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

However, it does look like it's recording your location history and the two researchers were quite right to raise their concerns. By making the app public, they made it easy for others to research and discuss the issue - on discussion forums.

I'm sure the owners of the devices are very grateful for an app that tells them the last time they visited a location, even if most of them are imprecise and some of them are wrong.

Little bit of advice- just quit while you're losing...

Losing?

I have no doubt the iPhone has a good reason to know the location. But why does it store it on the PC?

It lists places I've never been to and it is never sent to anyone therefore it's not tracking.

The Find My iPhone feature must use this for assistance, I'm sure if your phone was nicked or misplaced you would want to get it back.

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

I have no doubt the iPhone has a good reason to know the location. But why does it store it on the PC?

It doesn't.

It stores it on the machine running Snow Leopard or Safari.

The latest developments probably haven't reached your bridge yet, but both these programs can run on these new-fangled computers that can be used on the move- laptops, they're usually called.

Try Googling for them, you'll be fascinated with what they can do these days.

In reply to a post by billford:

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

I have no doubt the iPhone has a good reason to know the location. But why does it store it on the PC?

It doesn't.

It stores it on the machine running Snow Leopard or Safari.

You misunderstand - why does the iPhone store the location info on the PC?