Why You're Gonna Get Stalked by Your iPhone Like Never Before with iOS 5
By Roberto Baldwin October 14, 2011
Apple's latest iOS brings enhanced location services to your iPhone. So enhanced that some apps make it seem a little bit scary at just how well they're tracking you, even when the app isn't running-but it's a good thing! Right?
Updated location features in iOS mean that apps like Foursquare and Apple's own Reminders can notify you when you enter or leave a geographic region. For instance, Foursquare's new feature Radar will pop up a notification when you're near a location-or people-that Foursquare thinks might be of interest to you. How? An updated Core Location feature, Region Monitoring.
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