[jeggers5]

This particular topic has been discussed to death lately. It's really not that big of a deal. Apple is doing this to aid in the phone being able to Triangulate it's position in relation to cell towers (when gps is unavailable).

Also, the phone is NOT constantly tracking your location. It only logs a new location (a) when you launch a location-aware app, e.g. Facebook, Maps etc. And (b) when you have never been to that location before.

It does not log the amount of times you have visited the location.

I suspect Apple is planning to do something cool with this Data, because of the way it is synced across Computer and Phone. Keep in mind however, the Data cannot be used to Track you constantly, only to see where you have been in the past, but, the log will never update to show that you visited a certain location more than once. Hope this helps!

[mattmanser]

The article totally contradicts you:

Among computer forensics specialists, those location logs--which record nearby cell tower coordinates and time stamps and cannot easily be disabled by someone who wants to use location services

And worse still, the article clearly shows this data is already being used by law enforcement for unmonitored tracking.

[tedunangst]

That doesn't contradict him at all. "cannot easily be disabled by someone who wants to use location services" is totally in line with "when you launch a location-aware app".

Also, I didn't see the part of the article where law enforcement is using this for unmonitored tracking. They can pull the data off your phone once when they arrest you. But how do they continue to keep pulling the data off your phone? If the police take my phone from me every day, I don't think that qualifies as unmonitored.