Senator questions Apple over iPhone tracking

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2 pointssushumna3 comments

Call me cynical, but this reads like some shall we say "special interest group" has decided to take potshots and has fed this to their talking head aka Senator.

Some of the points don't even make sense outside of a campaign of F.U.D.

"What if a virus got access to this information?"

What a colossally stupid question. Let me see, if there was a virus out there that got access to this information... all the jailbreakers would be screwed.

In that case, I'm sure Apple would shed a tiny, perfectly formed polished aluminium tear.

You can either scream about Apple's walled garden, or you can play what-if games with hypothetical viruses... but you can't have it both ways.

what does this have to do with jailbreakers? The data in question is accessible on the machine the person syncs their phone with. It's conceivable that third parties could easily gain access to it.

I'm sure people have all kinds of other sensitive private info on their machines, but how much of it is easy to automatically parse and analyze?

For a former comedian, Al Franken is sure leading the charge for consumers. We need more like him and less like Lieberman.

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