lawmakers demand answers from apple about iphone tracking
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Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) and Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) have sent letters to Apple CEO Steve Jobs demanding to know why Apple's products are keeping a log of every place the owner goes. Researchers Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden revealed Wednesday that Apple's iPads and iPhones contain a database with thousands of location points that gets downloaded every time the device syncs with a PC or Mac. The unencrypted file, named "consolidated.db," seems to be first created when user downloads and installs iOS 4 software to the device. It includes latitude, longitude, a time stamp, and the IP address for the wireless network the phone was currently accessing.TRANSCRIPT
