During the month of April much talk about the scandal linked to the collection of location data from the iPhone, iPhone 3G and Android devices . The company most committed to this problem was Apple, since the information was stored hidden within their computers .

Google, meanwhile, also took some “slaps” but was not much criticized because its executives and engineers showed that the tracking option could easily disabled from the configuration of Android . But to avoid problems like this happen again lawmakers want to create laws covering data storage .

One of the major drawbacks of this scandal (called in American media as “Locationgate”) is a large gap legal with respect to the collection of information related to positioning user . Thus, each company involved had a different view and had no tools authorities to take action on the matter .

Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy , Technology and the Law in the U.S. Senate required the participation of representatives of Apple and Google for comment what it is the location-tracking technology, the reason for their existence and utility purposes .

The objective of legislators is to create a law allowing release only the information necessary for that user privacy is guaranteed, but their services are not cut .

The truth is a very good initiative and could also be applied in other countries because the laws worldwide (not just in the U.S.) are very outdated in which refers to technology .

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