iPhones and 3G-enables iPads may be revealing your location to Apple, and there’s nothing you can do to stop it, according to a recently filed Apple location tacking lawsuit. Even if users disable the GPS functionality, iPhones and iPads will still report your location via Apples tracking system. That’s an invasion of privacy, according to two men, one in Florida and the other in New York, whose Apple class action lawsuit was filed April 22, 2011.
iPhones and iPads with the iOS4, the operating system used in those products for about a year now, will track your location and send it to Apple twice a day, according to the Apple location tracking lawsuit. Users can disable the reporting functionality of the tracking system, which means the location data won’t be sent to Apple. However, disturbing to consumers is that the products will continue to collect your location data, even if it’s not sent to Apple. Then, anyone with access to your iPhone or iPad and a computer can download that data.
About one third to one half of iPhone users in the U.S. could be part of this Apple location tracking class action lawsuit. Even more plaintiffs could be involved it one source is correct in saying the hidden database file that collects your location information has been around since 2007, rather than in just the past year.
Computer fraud and consumer fraud laws have been violated, according to lawyers for the plaintiffs in the Apple location tracking lawsuit.
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