[hugh]

Okay, just having issues today with Apple

Went to Me.com to "Find my iPhone"

It said my son's iPod Touch was in China.

 

[hugh]

hmm, after some refresh, it correctly identified that the iPod touch was in our house.

 

[Fry1989]

ROFL

You never know, those Chinese are clever folks, they may have portaled it over there by accident while trying to get Obama's blackberry and when they realized the mistake, sent it back to your home

 

[57]

They're tracking you.

Apple devices logging movements

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/apple-devices-logging-movements-researchers-193700530.html

 

[hugh]

Actually I saw that and was thinking the same thing!

 

[TorontoColin]

My Android phone thought I was in Colombia a couple of times. GPS glitch, I think.

Does the iPod Touch have a GPS chip or does it WiFi connections to guess your location?

 

[querty-m4n]

WiFi on the iPod Touch using Skyhook Wireless for your location. The iPhone uses GPS.

 

[topherpaquette]

My speedtest on my mobile (Bell) put me at johannesburg, South Africa (169.202.45.0) tonight....

Weird

 

[jvincent]

If it shows up in China again let me know and I will look for it.

 

[TKG26]

ditto on my android saying i was in a different country... Its a glitch... space travel is not due out till Android 4.0

 

[sleemo]

Apparently, iPhone and iPad constantly tracks the device's movements via GPS and stores all that information on the device, never erasing it.

There is software called "iPhone Tracker" that will let you view the data easily but I think it's only for MAC. But the site explains how you can view the data without installing the software.

iPhone keeps record of everywhere you go

Privacy fears raised as researchers reveal file on iPhone that stores location coordinates and timestamps of owner's movements

Security researchers have discovered that Apple's iPhone keeps track of where you go – and saves every detail of it to a secret file on the device which is then copied to the owner's computer when the two are synchronised.

The file contains the latitude and longitude of the phone's recorded coordinates along with a timestamp, meaning that anyone who stole the phone or the computer could discover details about the owner's movements using a simple program.

 

[ScaryBob]

It's probably just these guys doing some experiments.