The revelation that Apple iOS devices track your location is not really news, it's not unique to Apple, and the information gathered doesn't really have the ominous Big Brother implications it might suggest...Another team of researchers had already conducted an extensive investigation of the types of data that are stored on iOS devices. The findings were presented in January at the 2011 44th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, and the paper is available as an IEEE publication...Granted,...it is understandable that this research managed to stay off the radar. However, another reason that...[this] should not be news is that Apple already told Congress last summer that it was gathering this information...Apple is not the only "culprit" doing so. Google's Android mobile operating system also monitors and logs user location data...Don't panic, though. In most cases, the data is virtually useless for identifying your actual whereabouts.