“Apple and Google are scheduled to appear before the Judiciary’s Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law at a hearing about location-based data practices,” Ina Fried reports for AllThingsD.
“The hearing comes in the wake of concerns over how both companies are handling location-based information gathered on cell phones and tablets,” Fried reports. “CEO Steve Jobs told Mobilized in an interview last week that Apple would be testifying before Congress.”
“‘They have asked us to come and we will honor their request, of course,’ Jobs said. Apple has maintained that it isn’t tracking anyone and that location data found on the iPhone was the relevant portion of a broad, crowdsourced location database,” Fried reports. “Apple has since released an update to the iPhone operating system that limits the amount of such information stored on the device and ensured that all data is deleted when users opt not to use location-based services.”
Read more in the full article, including info about how AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint are due in D.C. next week, too, here.
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“Mr. Jobs Goes to Washington.” 🙂
Anyone know if this will be on cspan and if so when?
The hearings will be at an undisclosed location… 🙂
Info on the hearing at:
http://judiciary.senate.gov/hearings/hearing.cfm?id=5157
Note who Apple (Bud Tribble Vice President of Software Technology) and Google (Alan Davidson Director of Public Policy, Americas) sent to testify.
That is quite interesting who each company has chosen to represent their interests here…
So, Apple sent someone who could actually talk about the software, and Google sent their in-house lobbyist?
Apple and Google
Sittin’ in DC
P.I.S.S.I.N.G.
First kid gloves
Then no marriage
Then comes battles
With the wireless carriage
It’s about time they bring jobs to the capitol the unemployment rate is high
I’ll be in D.C. On Monday and Tuesday. Maybe I’ll run into Steve. One can only hope.
I predict that with the strength of Steve’s RDF the government not only believe everything that is said, but soon we’ll see legislation introduced that allows companies to track all sorts of stuff.
It will sound like a brilliant plan coming from Mr. Jobs. 😉
Can’t wait to hear what Goople has to say about their system. I’m sure their information gathering and sharing is much more than Apple by a Goople mile. 😉