Not news, and also not news, it's easily disabled. Besides, all this shows is that the phone knows, and there are actual uses for it that make me leave it on, like predicting how long it will take to get home or common places I go. As for it's use in advertising, that can be reset as well as opposed to disabled, so I reset that periodically.<p>Also, this isn't unique to iPhone, [1] and hasn't been since it was discovered on Android as well.<p>1. <a href="http://thenextweb.com/google/2011/04/21/its-not-just-the-iphone-android-stores-your-location-data-too/#!p7JT9" rel="nofollow">http://thenextweb.com/google/2011/04/21/its-not-just-the-iph...</a>
"Your iPhone maps and logs where you are and when you're there" ... only after asking if you want to enable location services when you get a new phone. That's not exactly "on by default".
Hasn't this been known for quite some time? Here's an article from 2011: <a href="http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/04/iphone-tracks/" rel="nofollow">http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/04/iphone-tracks/</a>
This has been "known" for a long time, but not known widely enough that I see it turned off when I ask my friends with iPhones about their data.<p>Typically the first thing I do is ask them if they want targeted ads pushed to them based on their location and they say "no" and I proceed to borrow their phone and disable everything buried in that menu under Privacy except (perhaps) the compass calibration.
I know this has been discussed many times since the iOS 7 beta builds first release, but recently there has been a nice interface Google has released to see this data from your google account. Uses anything logged in with your google account (phone, computer, tablet, etc) and puts it in one central area.<p><a href="https://maps.google.com/locationhistory/b/0/" rel="nofollow">https://maps.google.com/locationhistory/b/0/</a>