I call BS. Users should be able to turn tracking on and off. I *believe* this is a feature in windows phone 7...users can choose whether to have location services on or off. That’s the way to do it. Maybe Apple will copy Microsoft and allow users to choose if they want to be tracked.
Also you CAN turn location services off in iPhones and iPads. You can’t turn off the cell tower ID logging that is recorded. That’s in every phone including Windows7 phones. It’s part of the functionality of the phones. That’s what this is. That’s ALL this is. READ THE ARTICLE. Apple is not mining this data! That is illegal. The author states that as a fact. He also states as a fact that analysis of the signals coming from the devices have never found this data being transmitted. It is merely retained in the phone in a DB file for the purposes of the apps in the phone as he describes.