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Not to sound flip, but if you're concerned about law enforcement tracking your movements, you should leave the phone at home.

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Not flippant at all. Law enforcement can track where you are through your telco even if you don't have a fancy phone. And they can do it live.

That probably only works for local telco's. With Apple's info, US agencies can track anyone with an iPhone in the world, even if the telco's there don't want to cooperate.

... After they physically seize your phone or home PC, to read this only-locally-stored file, of course.

True -- or don't use a cell-phone at all: http://news.cnet.com/Cell-phone-tracking-raises-privacy-issu....

I guess what I really meant was I'm happier knowing what they're keeping. Future versions may add other features of interest & we'll never know.

I wonder what this story would have been like if this database was originally encrypted & then it was discovered. "Apple attempts to hide location tracker on your iPhone via encryption!"

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