Star Tribune: Calls fly over iPhones’ tracking, including from Franken

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http://blog.alfranken.com/2011/04/26/star-tribune-calls-fly-over-iphones-tracking-including-from-franken/

Your iPhone, iPad or Android phone know where you are, where you go to the gym, and what restaurants you eat at. And the mobile devices can tell anyone who gets their hands on your phone or tablet.

Sen. Al Franken wants to know why.

Franken, chairman of a newly formed Senate Technology and Privacy Subcommittee, said Friday he may call a congressional hearing soon to examine why smartphones and other mobile devices are tracking and storing users’ locations. He sent a letter to Apple CEO Steve Jobs this week laying out his privacy concerns on the tracking data.

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“Let’s say your child loses the iPhone that she uses, or someone steals it from her,” Franken said in an interview Friday. “The person who gets that phone can find out everything about where your child goes: Her school, where she goes to soccer practice, where she hangs out with friends.


Calls fly over iPhones' tracking, including from Franken
http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/120524244.html

[bertman]

1. REC. Those iPhones are very cool, but just like cell phones and OnStar they

track us wherever we go. Brave New World.

[pscot]

3. Dumb new people

[gejohnston]

2. I'll keep my "just a phone" thank you very much.