In your user account.
There's quite a difference right there. I thought it was some kind of "hidden" file (not unlike the GPS location which was saved by default on any iPhone with a GPS -- up to the latest iPhone!?) which had now been discovered.
It's just in your user account so it's no big deal.
Everyone with access to your Mac can access it just as well, i assume. I guess it can also be read by applications, uploaded to the internet? I don't have a Mac so i don't know the restrictions but i would consider it privacy information that i would like to know if and where it's stored. There is a reason you can delete your browser history. Or your recently accessed files list.
If they're logged on to your account, but not if they are using a different account.
>I guess it can also be read by applications, uploaded to the internet?
Not Mac App Store apps - they're quarantined.
So, they are encrypted or how is that guaranteed?