[bad_user]

Except that it is GPS data ... the file "consolidated.db" does contain a list of (your) latitude + longitude + timestamp -- and when this was discovered, that file contained location data for the last 10 months (probably since iOS 4 was released).

This data is indeed used by Apple to build a database of Wifi hotspots and cell towers, along with their locations, doing this to improve their location services when GPS data is not available (the first iPhone could show you your location by doing triangulation on the cell towers nearby).

The fact of the matter is that if you can get your hands on such an iPhone (without a security fix, which I'm sure it's available by now) - you can find out where that iPhone has been.

You know, a simple search on Google could have told you the answer to this -- now you've just added noise.

[yellowbkpk]

Can you point to a page that says there are indeed latitude + longitude + timestamp that follow a user's location?

From what I've read, the database was a cache of nearby cell tower and wifi hotspot locations from Apple's servers, not the GPS-calculated (or even tower-triangulated) location of the user.