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by sneak 2014 days ago
Ahh, I understand you now.

Perhaps that you do not realize that storing client IP logs is standard practice for all internet services, and indeed without special and custom engineering effort is necessary for preventing brute-force attempts and denial of service as well as other types of abuse.

Any system as vast and reliable as APNS or the App Store is logging client IPs (and is thus logging approximate client location).

The data is absolutely being stored.

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Anyone who doesn’t embed Tor for all communications, is recording your travel history?

First off, this is still simply false.

It may be technically possible that they are in fact reconstructing identifiable location history for individuals.

It’s also possible that they do what they say they are doing, which is to anonymize as early as possible and not use data for this purpose.

They could easily be keeping these logs separate, and disposing of them in a timely fashion, and not attempting to use them to analyze individual’s locations.

You are clearly technically competent enough to know that either scenario is possible (as well as many others).

Therefore you know it is not true to say that Apple is ‘recording you travel history’ in the absence of additional evidence.