1. Do You Know Where You Are? Your iPhone Does By Russel Gray image by Apple Inc.

2. The mighty iPhone was first released in June 2007 image by macroPaple.com

3. The 4th generation was released in June 2010 image by Apple Inc.

4. Total Sold Worldwide: 108.62 million image by Wiki Commons

5. Must be safe and secure then right? image by Marco Bellucci

6. Maybe Not! image by Rajiv Ashrafi

7. British security researchers have discovered that your iPhone can track and record where you are and when your there image by NASA

8. Latitude, longitude and local time are saved in a discrete file on your phone and backed up to your computer during a sync image by dephwynd

9. What does this mean for you? image by mikecogh

10. This data used to only be available to law enforcement under a court order image by Gamma Man

11. Now anyone: private detectives jealous spouses stalkers hackers can track your every movement image by ariarman.blogspot.com

12. Do all smart phones do this? image by digitaltrends.com

13. The simple answer: No image by byte Android and Blackberry along with all regular cell phones don’t have this coding image by technokitten

14. Is it accidental? image by Ninja M.

15. Definitely not! Upgrade your iPhone, or iPad and the data is transferred to your new device

16. “If the data isn’t required for anything then it shouldn’t store a location. And it doesn’t need to keep an archive on your machine of where you have been” – Graham Cluley, digital security expert image by businesscomputingworld.co.uk

17. What does Apple do with this data anyway? image by Stewf

18. Apple refused to comment

19. Technically Apple can legitimately claim it has permission to collect this data thanks to...

20. an 86 word paragraph about “Location-based services” at the end of its 15,200 word Terms and Conditions for its i-Tunes program. ”Apple and our partners and licensees may collect, use, and share precise location data, including the real-time geographic location of your Apple computer or device. This location data is collected anonymously in a form that does not personally identify you and is used by Apple and our partners and licensees to provide and improve location-based products and services. For example, we may share geographic location with application providers when you opt in to their location services.” - Apple

21. Can you turn it off?

22. No No option exists that allows you to turn this tracker off image by .schill

23. Apple refused to comment

24. Does this tarnish Apple’s shiny reputation? image by confidentjohn

25. You bet it does. image by netzkobold