AT&T Repsonds to Privacy Concerns Regarding Unwanted iPhone Uploads

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Apple has long been known as a company that pays an immensely close attention to detail with their products running into few, if any, problems over their life cycle. However, now a days, it seems that Apple has been running into problem after problem. The most infamous problem that they have run into as of late is the one regarding the iPhone 4′s reception issues. If you’re not familiar with this it involves holding the device in your left hand, covering part of the stainless steel outer band that acts as the phone’s antenna and watching the reception bars drop.

Following in the footsteps of the infamous Death Grip came issues with iOS 4 causing problems when installed on the iPhone 3G. User reports suggest that a flaw within the update has caused the iPhone 3G to experience diminished battery life and sluggish operation.

Aside from technical problems, a major gripe that users have had with the iPhone is the fact that it is on AT&T. While some have had no problems whatsoever with AT&T’s service, others have reported extremely shoddy connections and an immense amount of dropped calls. What ever the case may be, what has happened recently regarding data and AT&T is sure to raise some eyebrows.

Earlier today we let you know that some unwanted data transfers were happening around 1AM with some transfers clocking in at as big as 75 megabytes. Considering these happened while users are asleep, it led to concerns that Apple or AT&T were snooping around in the data on your phone and sending it back to headquarters for examination.

Well, conspiracy theories aside, AT&T has come forth today to respond to the privacy concern accusations issuing the following statement:

This is a routine update of your daily data activity on your device to ensure the accuracy of your data billing. Customers are not charged for data usage, given that no data session is generated. It’s not uncommon for devices that are ‘always on’, like iPhone, to process data event records for billing purposes after a certain amount of inactivity or after long periods of time. It’s also separate from how our system lets you monitor your data consumption.

Legit excuse or just a ploy to cover up AT&T’s quest for world domination? You be the judge.