Your iPhone Is Tracking You. So What? - NYTimes.com: First of all, from what we can determine, this information isn’t transmitted anywhere — to Apple or anyone else. Instead, it’s stored only on your own computer, in a buried and layman-incomprehensible form, in the backup that iTunes creates each time you sync your phone or tablet. So no, Apple is not tracking you, and neither is the government.
You agree to similar conditions when you use a BlackBerry, a Motorola Blur phone, a Palm or HP phone, and HTC Sense phone, a Microsoft Windows Phone 7, and so on.
In the meantime, if you’re concerned, password-protect your computer, so your jealous spouse can’t download the researchers’ app and run it on your iPhone backup. Or turn off your phone’s Location Services (in Settings), at least whenever you’re going somewhere you’re not supposed to be. Or encrypt your iPhone backups. In iTunes, click your phone’s icon and turn on “Encrypt iPhone Backup.”
Meanwhile, accept it: Yes, Big Brother is watching you. But he’s been watching you for years, well before the iPhone log came to light, and in many more ways than you suspect.
And you know what? I’ll bet he’s bored to tears.