It is a known fact that some iPhone apps have been specifically designed to track your geographical location through time, then upload that data to Pinch Media. The company uses this system to inform developers of the number of distinct users who’ve accessed the application, how long it has been used, and so on. Since a number of apps even disclose gender & age to Pinch Media, some now believe they can be considered spyware.

A post on the iPhone Dev Team’s blog caught our attention earlier today. The team of hackers points out to an iPhone app that asks you for permission to use your location.

“If you tap ‘Don’t Allow’, it will ask you again in about a minute, the next time its ad changes,” the team explains. “So you either stop using this app (because it pesters you so much about the location question), or you finally submit and tap ‘OK.’ From that point on, your location and path info (your actual physical path through your area each time you launch the app) belongs to Pinch Media, Inc. We think that’s a Pinch too much,” the Dev Team shares.

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