I’ve just used Pete Warden and Alasdair Allan’s app to interrogate my iPhone location records.
This is fascinating. You can see I spend a lot of time travelling up and down to London on the West Coast Main Line. I’ve also had a few days holiday in North Yorkshire. But, unsurprisingly, most of my data is from Glasgow and East Kilbride. At that scale, no big secret.
Some anomalies though – I’ve not been to Worcester, Wakefield, Perth or Hull recently. The data isn’t terribly precise, as it uses triangulation rather than GPS. Or at least that’s my story…
However it is worrying that my iPhone is recording and storing this information without my permission or knowledge, and without adequate protection. Maybe I’d be geeky enough to want this information, and for me it’s not that important if people know where I’ve been, but for anyone in the public eye this must be a security nightmare. I’m glad we know about it now.