Sarah Forden reports: Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy invited Google Inc. (GOOG) and Apple Inc. (AAPL) to testify on May 10 at a hearing on privacy and mobile telephones. Leahy, a Vermont Democrat, sent invitations to Google Chief Executive Officer Larry Page and Apple CEO Steve Jobs, urging the companies to testify about how…
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Apple denies tracking iPhone users, but promises changes
Gregg Keizer reports: Apple today denied that it tracks iPhone and iPad users, saying that “users are confused” about the issue. In a statement posted on its Web site, Apple defended the practice, but admitted that there were bugs in its software that would be fixed “in the next few weeks” with an update to…
Shock: iPhones store location data (Gimme a break…)
Mike Elgan writes: Location data retention sounds like a medical condition. In a way, it is. And your phone’s probably got it. We heard about a new scandal this week. iPhones, we discovered, keep a record of every place you’ve been, or, at least, every place your phone’s been. That data is stored in a…
Coming up Tuesday: SCOTUS hears data-mining case Sorrell v. IMS
Lyle Denniston writes: The Supreme Court holds one hour of oral argument on Tuesday on the scope of constitutional protection for the modern phenomenon of “data-mining,” the creation of usable information out of masses of stored computer entries. The case is Sorrell, et al., v. IMS Health, et al. (10-779). Arguing for the state of…