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Thursday, 28 April 2011

News: q & a on site data make Apple

Apple has to discuss a ten question Q & A document published the collection of location information on iOS devices. In response to the first question "Why is Apple my iPhone location tracking?", which company writes, "Apple is not the location of your iPhone tracking." "Apple has never done and has no plans to ever do." The second question asks why, then, everyone is so worried; Apple responded by saying that users are confused, partly because creator of new technologies - including himself - not enough education on such issues have provided. As a response to the third question, "Why is my iPhone my site logging?", Apple explains that the iPhone - and probably other iOS devices - are not logging sites, but "Waiting a database of Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers around your current location which some is more than one hundred miles away from your iPhone", to help your iPhone quickly and accurately calculate its location if requested. "

Apple accused the size of the current database on the device to fail, that it has revealed the, which is also responsible is disabled for the continuous updating of the database for location services. Interesting that admits Apple, "collect anonymous traffic data.", a lot of related traffic database with the aim, iPhone users build an improved traffic service in the next few years as "Apple believes that personal information security and privacy are important?", the company responded "Yes" do in response to the last question is,, we are strong. For example, for the first time iPhone questions, users give their permission for each app to use the location wanted to. "Apple will be continue to lead in improving the security of personal information and privacy."

Apple says that it will release a free iOS update "in the next few weeks", you reduce the size of the crowd related Wi-Fi hotspots and cell tower database caching on the iPhone, not more secure this cache, and completely clear the cache in the location services turn off, and promise that iOS the next major version of the software will encrypt the database on the iPhone.

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