Apple has appalled the digital privacy purists with its dodgy location tracking features.

Turns out that since the iOS4 system update, released in June 2010, iPhones are keeping track of where you go and store that information in a ‘secret file’ on your computer when the two are synchronised.

While this sounds terrifying, especially to those already concerned about the diminishing privacy in the digital world, the nature of the first worries to occupy our minds are interesting in themselves.

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