"Apple Responds to China Report on iPhone Location Feature"
Quoting from the site wsj.com Posted by:Dr Ahmed.M.Shaban Associated Press Apple AAPL +0.19% responded to China’s influential state broadcaster, which called the iPhone a “national security concern” because of a feature that learns the locations of places a user visits most frequently. In a statement titled “Your Location Privacy” published on Apple’s China website, the company said it does not track users or share their locations with outsiders. Apple said it created the “frequent locations” feature so users can “quickly and reliably determine their current locations for specific activities such as shopping, travel, finding the nearest restaurant or calculating the amount of time it takes them to get to work.” The statement came in response to a report on Friday by state-run China Central Television, which criticized the frequent locations function in Apple’s iOS 7 mobile operating system, because it records the time and lo...