In April 2011, experts revealed an undocumented function of a regular recording made by an iPhone smartphone and iPad 3G tablet of information on the geographical location of the device in a hidden file.
The latent function of tracing movements of users in popular smartphones and Tablet PCs has been around for years, and it is extremely difficult to find out what companies do with these data, experts told RIA Novosti on Friday. Also, they mentioned that users blithely hand out permission to use their personal data.