Written by So Apple has finally updated the security issues that many experts had concerns over. In the last few weeks, it had been brought to the attention of many people that you iPhone will store your location information for up to a year. That meant that, even if you had Location Services turned off, your iPhone would track exactly where you were at and store that information in the location database. Now, to the average user, this doesn’t seem to be a big deal. But, if you are concerned with your safety and privacy, having everywhere you have been in the last year stored in a database is scary. And when you sync to your iTunes all of that information has been stored in a file on your computer. That means anyone with access to your computer and iTunes with a little know how could create a list of all of your locations.
Apple updated iOS to 4.3.3 to address this issue. Now, it will only store information for roughly a week, which is much better than a year. You can prevent it from collecting any data at all by turning Location Services off altogether. That is easily done under settings on the iPhone.
Now, the bad news. If you have an iPhone 3G you are out of luck. Apple will no longer officially support the 3G. That means that any and all updates that come out are only for the 3GS and higher. So, if you have an iPhone 4 (AT&T version), iPhone 3GS, iPad , iPad 2, and 3rd and 4th-generation iPod Touch devices, fire up iTunes and download the update. If you have a 3G, keep looking over your shoulder.
And that is probably how they really found Osama Bin Laden, he must have had a 3G iPhone. That will teach you not to upgrade to the newest model.
Read more here at Apple’s site.
