RE: Transparent tracking with iphone.

>> "License, registration, proof of insurance, and cell phone, please.":

>Isn't that a separate issue: unreasonable search and seizure?

>That said, the existence of that data in consolidated.db on iPhones  
>(most likely as the result of an error or oversight, as it turns out,  
>rather than nefarious misbehavior on the part of Apple) may constitute  
>an "attractive nuisance", which the command-and-control apparatus may  
>be unable to resist.

I'm not sure what a cop can do with it.  Let's say he scans your devise and
finds you've been at a murder site within 5 minutes of the murder.  They
investigate the area, knowing you are a suspect, and find something to bring
you in on, and then get a warrant...etc.

But, all your attorney has to say is that "this evidence is tainted by an
illegal search of the iphone on this date.  Tainted fruit gets thrown out,
virtually every time.  

Now, it's more likely that AT&T can retrieve the file without you knowing it
and sell the information.  Its probably somewhere in the fine print of your
agreement that it's OK to do that, hidden under their checking the device
for quality control or something.

Dan M.