SAN FRANCISCO: Privacy watchdogs are demanding answers from Apple Inc about why iPhones and iPads are secretly collecting location data on users — records that cellular service providers routinely keep but require a court order to disgorge.
It’s not clear if other smartphones and Tablet computers are logging such information on their users. And this week’s revelation that the Apple devices do wasn’t even new — some security experts began warning about the issue a year ago.
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