The hubbub was due to some bugs in iOS location services and wasn't ever directly accessed by Apple or shared with 3rd parties. http://www.apple.com/ca/pr/libr

The hubbub was due to some bugs in iOS location services and wasn't ever directly accessed by Apple or shared with 3rd parties. http://www.apple.com/ca/pr/library/2011/04/27Apple-Q-A-on-Location-Data.html http://www.apple.com/ca/pr/library/2011/04/27Apple-Q-A-on-Lo... All smartphone providers track the same sort of data in roughly the same way, it's part of what makes location software work.