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by Ratufa 5531 days ago
That apple collects "non-personal" location data isn't a secret. Look at their privacy policy:

http://www.apple.com/privacy/

Some details as to what and why they collect data was provided by Apple to Congress last year:

http://markey.house.gov/docs/applemarkeybarton7-12-10.pdf

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Web-Services-Web-20-and-SOA/Apple-T...

Some additional information as to what's going on is at:

http://alexlevinson.wordpress.com/2011/04/23/3-new-thoughts-...

Note the emphasis in all of this on "non-personal". As somebody else pointed out, Steve Jobs is technically correct in the statement he (supposedly) made.