Of course we couldn’t have Apple news without Gruber bashing. "The big question, of course, is why Apple is storing this information. I don’t have a definitive

Of course we couldn’t have Apple news without Gruber bashing. "The big question, of course, is why Apple is storing this information. I don’t have a definitive answer, but the best at least somewhat-informed theory I’ve heard is that consolidated.db acts as a cache for location data, and that historical data should be getting culled but isn’t, either due to a bug or, more likely, an oversight. I.e. someone wrote the code to cache location data but never wrote code to cull non-recent entries from the cache, so that a database that’s meant to serve as a cache of your recent location data is instead a persistent log of your location history. I’d wager this gets fixed in the next iOS update.” http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/04/21/andy-ihnatko-location-log http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/04/21/andy-ihnatko-loc... "The key question for Apple: Given that this file was widely known among iOS forensics experts back in September, why does it still contain historical (as opposed to just recent) location history today?” http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/04/21/watts-martin http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/04/21/watts-martin "Android phones store the same type of location information, but, unlike iOS, Android’s cache only contains recent entries — which is to say Android is doing it right.” http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/04/21/android-location-cache http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/04/21/android-location... "Really good questions” [About Senator Al Frankens letter to Steve Jobs on iPhone location tracking] http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/04/21/franken http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/04/21/franken