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Apple Speaks Out on iPhone Tracking, Promises to Encrypt Location Data

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Apple Speaks Out on iPhone Tracking, Promises to Encrypt Location Data

Comments: (0) | Wed, 04/27/2011 - 10:12am

Today Apple released a Q&A about the location data that's stored on the iPhone. In the statement, the company says broadly that it does not track the iPhone's location, and that the data, which is currently stored in an unprotected file, will be encrypted in the next major update of iOS.

In the statement, Apple admits that iPhones send location data to Apple to maintain a crowd-sourced database of Wi-Fi hotspots and cell phone towers, as many have suspected. However, the company says those locations can be up to 100 miles away from the phone's location, and that the data is sent anonymously.

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