iPhone Tracking Data Deletion Tool

Much information has emerged over the last several days in relation to iPhones and iPads tracking user data location and logging and mapping data points over time. One new iphone app has come forth from Canadian Ryan Petrich, a programmer according to Cnet, who quickly came to the rescue for privacy rights. The application only works on jail-broken iPhones, however.

The application may be downloaded from a link in the Cnet article. The program is an unofficial Apple App that is not available through Apple's official store. The Apple app runs in a "daemon" environment that runs in the background consistantly deleting the "consolidated.db" tracking data file. The U.S. Senators and Representatives of Congress that have taken issue with Apple and Steve Jobs for storing tracking data but these type of available 'data deletion programs' should give Congress some type of "fix" if the data tracking files are deemed invasive.

iPhone and iPad users may also find positive features to the GPS data tracking:

• parents could monitor children's whereabouts
• if Apple iPhone or iPad users are victimized it could possibly help in solving crimes because of the absolute proof at "approximately" the time and location of the i-device during specified time lapses.
• if the Apple tech device is stolen and later retrieved the criminal and his known associates could be identified
• Apple users could "prove" to their employeer where they were during certain times if outside the office
• Users could log their "mileage"

We are curious why no similar option for data tracking deletion is built-in to the iOS4.