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Today I learned my iPhone is keeping track of everywhere I go. In one of the latest software updates for the iPhone, Apple has included a file that is appended to with coordinates of where the iPhone is located up to 100 times a day. Essentially it keeps track of everywhere you go with your iPhone, all day every day.

Initially, this was kind of scary to think about but after finding that someone has made an application (for Macs) that finds the file, opens it and displays all the data on a map for you, suddenly all thoughts about why Apple is collecting this data vanished and it all became very interesting and kind of cool.

According to the application, my iPhone has been tracked since 29/07/2010 which is the day I bought my iPhone 4. Just so you know, this applies to everyone who has an iPhone, so if you have one, the same information is being tracked about you. Not only has it tracked my whereabouts in Australia (pictured above) but it also followed me in Europe (below).

Cool right? If you think it is then here is a link to download and use the application yourself.

Update: It has come across my mind that this is actually a pretty neat tool for tracking where you travel abroad. The above image gives a pretty good outline of where I went and what I may have seen during my time in Europe. If you are traveling abroad soon, I encourage you to take your iPhone and on your return home use this app to get your map!

Download: http://petewarden.github.com/iPhoneTracker/

Source: http://mashable.com/2011/04/20/iphone-location-history/