Apple and Google Urged to Explain Tracking Location Data

Committee on Energy and Commerce United States (U.S.), which also handles privacy issues, sent letters to six developers of mobile operating systems, including Apple and Google. Its contents, ask for clarification on the issue of tracking the user's location.

Reported by the Wall Street Journal, and quoted us, the Committee requested that all questions were answered in writing before May 9, 2011.

In the version of the letter sent to Apple CEO Steve Jobs, the Committee asked some of them, what location data is tracked, stored and used or why the track, use, store or share data.

As is known, the practice track record smartphone users on this hot issue since the iPhone is rumored to secretly record the movements of users wherever they go.

In addition to Apple, a similar letter was also sent by the Committee to Google, Microsoft, Nokia, Research in Motion (RIM), Hewlett-Packard (HP). The letter bearing the signatures of Chairman Fred Upton and the other four members of the sub committee.

However, both Apple and Google, has not given an official clarification on this. Apple CEO Steve Jobs has reportedly denied it through an email reply asking consumers directly to him. But still, the answer can not be confirmed as an official confirmation of Jobs.

The findings security researchers Pete Warden is then developed and questioned the possibility of smartphones besides the iPhone do that too. Studies differ on Android-based phones, there are also known to practice this reconnaissance.

Nokia through its spokesman said location data is only stored on the phone, sent or collected when users choose to use the service. While HP and RIM have never responded to this issue.

What about other companies? Microsoft have responded to technology blog Gizmodo asked him directly. At that time, Microsoft confirmed that the details of the movement of the user is recorded in mobile Windows Phone 7, but it is saved to storage owners WP7 own account, based on the last location they are.

Meanwhile, Windows Phone Update,.

Users of Windows Phone 7 (WP7) must have been waiting for further updates from the 'Nodo'. According to one partner Microsoft, 'Mango' update is a Windows Phone 7.5.

It also said the Major next update will come at the end of the week, but users can see the first features that will be available. The mention of Windows Phone 7.5 is known to have appeared since some time earlier.

"Preview the Windows Phone OS 7.5," wrote that sentence emblazoned on one of Microsoft's partners, as we quoted from Gizmodo., Information was subsequently removed by the partner.

Nokia, Windows Phone 7 closest associates at this time, reportedly awaiting Mango update before they launched the first two Windows phones, Nokia W7 and W8.

If this is the name of Windows Phone 7.5 will be used, this means returning to the tradition of naming Microsoft Windows Mobile. Older operating systems are always put a number behind it, for example: Windows Mobile 6.5.