There is a story out right now concerning Apples' "traking of iPhone users". Stories like this one is circulating, and people are generally concerned about Apple being evil and that Apple might be able to tell where and when you where somewhere. It's all very crazy.
According to more careful reporting (http://www.willclarke.net/?p=247) however, most of what is claimed in the stories is almost true, highly exaggerated or just plain wrong. It seems that the device is not tracking the location of the device itself, but rather the coordinates of cell towers it is connected too (along with connection details). This puts you, as a user, quite often anywhere within an area of 1500 m radius or more, which is hardly conclusive in most matters concerning personal privacy. It is also highly in accurate and quite often just plain wrong, which means that there are plausible deniability for anything that you may be doing which you should not be doing (or something like that.. I'm not sure about this privacy issue in general, to be honest).
Second, the data does not seem to leave your computer at any point. So, who is tracking you? I might be tracking myself without me knowing it ;-) but as for Apple, I feel quite safe. :-)
Stupid reporters.
