OTTAWA — A Canadian software developer has created a program that allows iPhone and iPad users to wipe clean the location history of their devices — a day after security researchers unleashed a privacy uproar by revealing that Apple Inc. records the location details in a hidden file on the user's phone and copies the unencrypted data to the user's home computer. Ryan Petrich of Edmonton said Thursday he's being bombarded with emails and online messages about his new tool called "Untrackerd." When installed, the program deletes the location tracking information, held in a hidden file called consolidated.db, every 30 minutes

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