iPad and iPhone track where you've been

by Zazzle

This CNET article reminds me of the time that it became known that Internet Explorer also tracks all the websites and search items you've ever visited or typed in, even if you would empty the 'history'.
I am still searching for that exact item, it must have been in the late nineties. Edit: found it.

Apparently this was about Internet Explorer version 4.0 and earlier, and my memory was not too bad, 1997 on the spot. I remember that I read about it in a minor computer magazine (yeah, that is how we did it old school :-)), they added a CD-ROM with a custom piece of software that would reveal all the websites you had ever visited, no matter how many times you had cleaned out your 'history'. This must have been my personal security-cherry-pop.

Googling around, I also found this technofile from back in Y2K, talking about GUID.

More:

• CNET article
• Wired
• Los Angeles Times
• Chicago Sun-times
• Germany privacy watchdog asks Apple (The Washington Post)
• We don't care! (The Washington Post)
• Belgian senator requests investigation (VRT - Dutch)
• followup by Reddit

Also check out this trick, it will turn every website into an iPad-experience. (from Joon.be)

Update: According to MacRumors.com, Apple denies to track users: "The iPhone is not logging your location. Rather, it's maintaining a database of Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers around your current location": letter. interview, interview transcript.