As has been widely reported (including by us in the last show), Apple has been storing information about where our iPhones wander to,
The information has been recorded by Apple’s mobile operating system to allow faster access to our location by apps that need to know where we are. However, there have been a number of security concerns about people being able to track our locations, or access the location database (i.e. where we’ve been) from a file copies to iTunes.
Apple has been (fairly) quick to address this, and have just released an update to their iPhone software.
The iOS 4.3.3 software update, now available via iTunes, addresses the concerns about what Apple calls the “crowd-sourced location database cache”, and specifically reduces the size of that cache, doesn’t back it up to iTunes, and deletes the database completely when you disable “Location Services” from the Settings menu.
Once again, the world is a safer place… until the next security / privacy scare, that is…