The link below is to his site (Media Matters doesn't have it) but this is the gist of it.
He opened the show trying to explain that his sudden concerns about privacy and the Constitution were why he was reversing the story from yesterday. They are running away from this story..... because the ACLU is on it? (the ACLU supported Rush in his drug case) Because Franken is on it?
They are twisted in their own spin.
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RUSH: I want to clear up something that came up on the program yesterday that has a lot of people panicked, and that is the location services bit about the iPhone.
Apparently the research that produced yesterday's story is not complete and is in fact erroneous, and that in fact there's nothing new about the iPhone calculating where it is. Current iPhone software, iPads, too, by the way, if they're 3G capable do the same thing. They keep a log of wherever they are. Interesting to note, though, it's done not by GPS but by cell phone triangulation. It's not pinpoint. But apparently this file used to be in the system software version three, and it was hidden, and it was hard to find. It became viewable and unencrypted in system four, which was introduced last summer, because it is used for notifications services, Push, and all that via multitasking, keeping multiple applications open at one time.
There's a long story today, a post by Alex Levinson, who is basically a forensics specialist when it comes to computer software. He read the story about the big stink, the story yesterday that your iPhone keeps track of wherever it has been. Of course people wonder is the phone alerting people, law enforcement, anybody else, is the phone reporting where it's been? This is a big privacy snafu. And the short answer is, yeah, the phone is reporting where it's been, but not for the reasons that you think, and that it's nothing new. In iOS 4 it's always been there. Three essential aspects here, Mr. Levinson claims: "Apple is not collecting this data. And to suggest otherwise is completely misrepresenting Apple." He's got a long explanation of why and how this is the case.
Number two: "The hidden file is neither new nor secret. It’s just moved. Location services have been available to the Apple device for some time. Understand what this file is -- a log generated by the various radios and sensors located within the device."
Did you know that your iPhone keeps track of where you are?" That's all it takes. "Did you know your iPhone is keeping track of everywhere you go, and here's an application that will produce on a map everywhere you've been. Would you like your wife to get hold of that? Would you like your husband to get hold of that?" You put all that together with the fact that Algore sits on the Apple board, the fact that Apple is a bunch of libs associated with the regime and so forth, you start putting these things together, and it's not hard for people to think that there may be something nefarious going on. So, yeah, there were a lot of people who are a little concerned about this.
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_042111/content/01125106.guest.html
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