This story of how the iPhone and iPad are tracking the every movement of their users keeps growing. Now DC Policymakers Ed Markey and Al Franken have gotten into the act, calling on Steve Jobs for an answer to this potentially massively embarrassing story.
While I haven’t had the opportunity to chat today with Steve about the situation, I did talk earlier to Robert Vamosi, a cybersleuth at Mocana and the author of the excellent new book When Gadgets Betray Us. And what Vamosi told me was pretty scary. According to him, it’s not just Apple gadgets that are betraying us.
So guess who else is watching you as you watch this TechcrunchTV clip?
We’ll have more from Vamosi’s interview next week.
Robert Vamosi is a Senior Analyst for Mocana, a hardware security start up, and author of When Gadgets Betray Us. For more than a decade he has been an award-winning journalist and analyst who has been covering digital security issues as a contributing editor at PCWorld, a blogger at Forbes.com, and for many years a senior editor at ZDNet/CNET. Over the years he has discussed computer security issues on ABC, NBC, the BBC, CNN, CNBC, NPR, and various other...
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