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	TOP STORY: iPhones secretly stashing history of your location Apple's iPhones are secretly storing data about your location, with a copy of the file being stashed on your Mac each time you sync with it. It's not clear why Apple captures the data, but the company apparently doesn't move it off your computers. Yet.
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