In iTunes, you can choose to encrypt your backup data under the Options menu, but there are much larger questions on why Apple is storing this in the first place. To get the same information from cell phone companies would require a court order, but for any users who didn’t know or didn’t think to turn on encryption – we’re guessing that’s actually a fairly large amount – it now only requires leaving your phone or a machine where you’ve synced your phone unattended around the wrong person for a period of time.

If you’re cheating on a tech savvy partner, now’s the time to worry.

Aside from that, Allen notes that chances are there are a limited number of people who would have access to this file, but the ease of discovery will still be troubling for some; as will the fact that there’s no documented explanation for why Apple’s devices collect and store the information seemingly forever.

Though it hasn’t slowed anything down, this isn’t the first time concerns over Apple’s unencrypted data storage and transmission around iOS 4 have arisen. In June, a former employee brought up the issue of the amount of data being collected in the background and the lack of privacy.

The biggest added feature in iOS 4.1 was actually promised to be a part of iOS 4 by Apple, and that’s Game Center.  Game Center is seemingly Apple’s version of Xbox Live for iOS games.  It will feature achievements, and allow you to challenge your friends that have Game Center compatibility.  The feature will be coming to all iOS devices that are capable of upgrading to 4.1, with one exception.  Though the iPhone 3G will be upgraded to iOS 4.1, which should improve stability and the speed of the OS, it will not be able to handle Game Center apparently.  The second generation iPod touch, which came out around the same time as the iPhone 3G will have Game Center, so it seems that small increase in performance (iPod touches always seem to have more powerful processors as the same generation iPhones) is the minimum for Game Center. {Gizmodo}

This isn’t the only feature that’s been left out on the iPhone 3G.  It, as well as the second generation touch weren’t able to support  home screen backgrounds which were introduced in iOS 4.0.  Nor were the devices able to support the multitasking in iOS 4.  So it’s really nothing new, but it’s obvious that Apple is trying to keep people to the two-year refresh model, which perhaps not coincidentally lines up with the timeframe of most contracts.