“Apple CEO Steve Jobs said Wednesday that the iPhone database that people have assumed was their personal information was, in fact, the relevant chunk of a global crowdsourced database that the company uses to deliver location-based information,” Ina Fried reports for AllThingsD. “‘We haven’t been tracking anyone,’ Jobs said in a telephone interview with Mobilized on Wednesday.”
“He said Apple looks forward to testifying before Congress and other regulatory bodies and said the company will do what it can to clarify things further,” Fried reports. “‘I think Apple will be testifying,’ Jobs said. ‘They have asked us to come and we will honor their request, of course.'”
Fried reports, “Jobs also said it will be interesting to see how aggressively the press tracks the issue and looks at what other players in the industry do. ‘Some of them don’t do what we do,’ Jobs said. ‘That’s for sure.'”
Jobs has more to say in the full article here.
[Attribution: AppleInsider. Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lava_Head_UK” for the heads up.]
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