Hoping to put to rest a growing controversy over privacy, Steven P. Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, took the unusual step of personally explaining that while Apple had made mistakes in how it handled location data on its mobile devices, it had not used the iPhone and iPad to keep tabs on the whereabouts of its customers.”We haven’t been tracking anybody,” Mr. Jobs said in an interview on Wednesday. “Never have. Never will.”To read this report in The New York Times in full, see:
www.nytimes.com/2011/04/28/technology/28apple.htmlAlso see:Apple Denies Tracking IPhone Locations, Will Reduce Amount of Data Stored
Apple Inc., facing scrutiny from consumers and lawmakers over data collection on its iPhone, said it isn’t tracking customers’ location while acknowledging it gathers information about wireless gear near a user’s handset.”Apple is not tracking the location of your iPhone,” the Cupertino, California-based company said in a statement today. “Apple has never done so and has no plans to ever do so.”
www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-27/apple-denies-tracking-iphone-locations-will-reduce-data-storage-capacity.htmlApple ‘not tracking’ iPhone users
Apple has denied that its iPhones and 3G iPads have been secretly recording their owners’ movements.In a website posting, the company said it had never tracked user location and had no plans to do so in future.Security researchers claimed to have found a hidden file on the devices containing a record of everywhere they had been.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13208867House Presses Apple, Google, Others on Location-Tracking Practices
A House committee that oversees privacy issues sent letters to six developers of mobile operating systems on Monday — including Apple Inc. and Google Inc. — seeking more information about whether they are tracking users’ locations, as the scrutiny expands to the broader industry.
online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703856704576285402575655210.htmlGoogle, Apple Invited to Testify at Senate Hearing on Mobile-Phone Privacy
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy invited Google Inc. and Apple Inc. 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 they are addressing privacy concerns raised by Google’s Android mobile phone software and Apple’s iPhone.
www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-27/google-apple-invited-to-testify-at-senate-privacy-hearings.html
Jobs Says Apple Made Mistakes With iPhone Data
Hoping to put to rest a growing controversy over privacy, Steven P. Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, took the unusual step of personally explaining that while Apple had made mistakes in how it handled location data on its mobile devices, it had not used the iPhone and iPad to keep tabs on the whereabouts of its customers.