Apple moves to quell iPhone tracking fears with “fix” pledge
Responding to a media hoopla surrounding the discovery of an obtuse file buried within the iPhone which logs the users location, Apple has published a statement on its website saying that the data storage was “a bug that we uncovered and plan to fix shortly.”
Identifying another “bug” the firm admitted that its phones continued to update location data – even when Location services were switched off, a blip which the company says it will also fix.
Denying any wrongdoing however the technology firm stated that the file was not “logging your location” but rather “maintaining a database of WI-Fi hotspots and cell towers around your current location.
Fears had been expressed by some users that Apple could be in breach of user’s privacy if such location files were to fall into the hands of someone other than the phone’s owner.