A Hidden Map of Everywhere You Go
Apple isn’t necessarily using your data for nefarious purposes, but it’s worth understanding what kind of information the company collects.
Take location data. Your iPhone uses location data for all kinds of useful features, like giving you driving directions or tagging and organizing your photos. What you might not realize is a lot of that data is being stored for later.
Open you iPhone settings, and then go to Privacy & Security > Location Services > System Services > Significant Locations. Here, you’ll find a record of your recent travel activity, as well as places you frequently go, like your home and work addresses.
Apple does provide fine-tuned controls to disable this data collection, and the company lays out information about how it uses location data in its privacy policies. Still, it demonstrates how detailed Apple’s default data harvesting is.
