Apple has responded to criticism over the way the iPhone stores details of its location and copies the data to a Mac or PC.
In a statement on its website, the company said ‘Apple is not tracking the location of your iPhone. Apple has never done so and has no plans to ever do so.’ The statement added that ‘The location data that researchers are seeing on the iPhone is not the past or present location of the iPhone, but rather the locations of Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers surrounding the iPhone’s location, which can be more than one hundred miles away from the iPhone. We plan to cease backing up this cache in a software update coming soon.’
