Attention all women an men read very important Updated: 5:47 p.m. Monday, July 28, 2014 | Posted: 10:33 a.m. Monday, July 28, 2014 Is your iPhone an iSpy? How well do you know your cellphone? For many of us, it knows where we are every minute of the day, and its storing that list right there on your phone where anyone can find it. Its pretty common knowledge that our smartphones can tag pictures and videos with where we are, and certain apps tell us theyre using our location. This is different. With a new operating system update that was released last fall, iPhones now keep an actual log of places youve been, down to the address and the minute. I dont think Ive ever been under this setting before, said smartphone user Jeremy Katz. I didnt know it was doing that level of detail. You have to know where to look: Step 1: Click on your Settings app Step 2: Select Privacy Step 3: Select Location Services Step 4: Scroll all the way to the bottom to System Services Step 5: Select Frequent Locations Step 6: Click on each of the cities, and each location to see the specific addresses youve visited and the time of day you were there. GALLERY: Step-by-step look at how to turn off Frequent Locations service We showed iPhone user Moniqua Griffin how to find her list. She said, For you to just be able to look it up like that, that aint good. It can be good for your boss, for example, if you have a work phone and he wants to know if you were really sick when you called out one day. I think thats a complete invasion of privacy, said Katz, who admitted he could also see some benefit to the technology. Thats good for checking up on your girlfriend too! he joked. His girlfriend who was standing right next to him replied, No, thats horrible! If someone thought a spouse was cheating, the truth could be right there in their phone. Wow, that is awesome, exclaimed Clayton County District Attorney Tracy Graham Lawson when she saw the technology for the first time. Its scary from a Big Brother point of view, but its awesome for law enforcement purposes, she added. Lawson says prosecutors have used cell tower data for years. But now, if a suspect swears he wasnt at the house that got robbed, his phone could say he was and at the exact time of the crime. Its by far better, otherwise theyre pinging a general location. This gives the exact address, this is awesome for us, Lawson said. If they go through the proper warrant procedures its perfectly appropriate for them to get this information, sad Atlanta attorney Gerry Weber, who specializes in constitutional law. Weber admits he finds the new technology a little scary. Anybody could grab your cellphone and see where youve been over the last several months, date and time and place. I dont think anybody would imagine that, said Weber. He worries the accessibility of the information might be too tempting for officers to wait for a search warrant. The officer might grab the phone, look and see where youve been, and use that information, and not ever tell anybody that they got it from your phone, said Weber. He wonders if Apple might eventually do the same, and share or sell locations for marketing. According to Apples website, “Your iPhone will keep track of places you have recently been, as well as how often and when you visited them, in order to learn places that are significant to you. This data is kept solely on your device and wont be sent to Apple without your consent. It will be used to provide you with personalized services, such as predictive traffic routing.” You automatically consent when you allow Apple to “use your frequent locations” to improve your maps feature. Apple refused to disclose how often your phone records your location, and whether its triggered by a specific act like a call or a text. Theres so much information out there. Its so rich. Its so revealing. They all want their hands on it, said Hanni Fakhoury with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco based non-profit that defends privacy rights. Fakhoury questions why Apple automatically activates the frequent locations feature when users agree to basic location services. When you are opted into the system automatically without any choice thats where there are some real problems, said Fakhoury. Most of the smartphone users Channel 2 shared the feature with immediately asked how to disable it. Teens phone ignites under her pillow; how real is the risk? 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