Finally on this Wednesday an official response of Apple Inc. was published in reply to the constant allegations made on Apple’s main product iPhone. It was alleged that iPhones keeps a record of all their customers (or users') location in real-time for as long as a complete year. In its answer the company noted that all these allegations are totally based on misunderstanding and this
Image via CrunchBaseentire idea is sinister and oblivious of facts. Additionally it has announced that it will soon be launching a series of updates to satisfy its customers even more and these software fixes will definitely address and resolve of any kind of legitimate privacy concerns of its customers.
Image via CrunchBaseentire idea is sinister and oblivious of facts. Additionally it has announced that it will soon be launching a series of updates to satisfy its customers even more and these software fixes will definitely address and resolve of any kind of legitimate privacy concerns of its customers.Apple clarified the ambiguity and stated that does not keeps track of the users exact location or coordinates, instead it said that the indexing of the respective Wi-Fi hotspots and/or cell towers nearby in the overall wide-ranging area is kept on record and that also for the betterment of the user itself, the company said.
In justification of keeping that list, Apple said that it is downloaded from their servers; it claimed that the only purpose is to make it easier for keep finding the phones’ location. Hence otherwise is stated that if it does no have that list than it will have to respond to weak and long-sighted signals from GPS satellites. So it declared that the list is only required by the navigation applications for just showing the phone's location faster and more accurately.
Whereas, replying to the concern of storing that location data for a complete year, it said that it admits that’s a bug. Apple said it understand that it is unnecessary to store location data for more than a week maximum, so it declared that another update fix will soon be released limiting the size of this data location file within the next few weeks.
Furthermore, this controversial file will no longer be synced from the iPhone to the user's computer, in response to some seriously raised legitimate concerns. It was alleged that computers are significantly way more easily fall victims to remote hacking attempts than cellphones.
Then again a third update fix will be released which will stop the practice of downloading this file to phones which keep it in all "Location Services" and that will turned off, Apple said. It promised that this fix will allow the file to be completely encrypted, where it needs to be kept anyway.
This response was the most elaborative and only official reply of Apple to these highly raised allegations. This controversial location data file was revealed publically by two researchers and exposed just last week which was a huge source of attention, even in Congress.
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