Apple updated its privacy policy today with an important and dare we say creepy new paragraph about location information. If you agree to the changes which you must do in order to download anything via the iTunes store you agree to let Apple collect store and share “precise location data including the real-time geographic location of your Apple computer or device.”
Apple says that the data is “collected anonymously in a form that does not personally identify you ” but for some reason we don t find this very comforting at all. There appears to be no way to opt-out of this data collection without giving up the ability to download apps.
via Privacy Change: Apple Knows Where Your Phone Is And Is Telling People – The Consumerist.
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