Apple releases iPhone, iPad software update to address location data collection

Following a furor over its iPhone and iPad devices collecting up to a year's worth of data related to a user's whereabouts, Apple Inc. on Wednesday released a software update that reduces the amount of data stored on the devices and allows users to delete the log of recorded locations.

The updated software version, iOS 4.3.3, will reduce the size of the file storing locations from up to a year's worth of data down to about a week's worth, Apple said, and will give users the option of shutting off the data collection altogether by turning off the "Location Services" setting.- source La Times