In China called the iPhone a threat to national security

Smartphone from the American company Apple is a likely threat to China's national security — this statement was made live on China Central television.


State Central channel of China in its air fell to the geolocation feature in iOS 7 that keeps track of the location of the smartphone and, therefore, its owner.

On this basis, producing the iPhone the American Corporation Apple was accused of spying on Chinese citizens and the assassination of a state secret.

In the same TV program individual story deserved the revelations of Edward Snowden, and database of American technology companies has been named the "gold mine", according to The Wall Street Journal.

The editors of the WSJ noted that Apple's request for comment on the matter was ignored.

Source: ridus.ru