Apple’s Guy L. “Bud” Tribble Appears Before Members of the U.S. Senate to Talk About

[Maura]

Today is the day that Apple’s vice president of Software Technology Guy L. “Bud” Tribble appeared before members of the U.S. Senate to talk about Apple’s privacy policy following on from the whole location data tracking palava. According to AppleInsider’s report on the hearing, Tribble reiterated the general gist of Apple's late-April statement on the matter, i.e., that Apple does not track users’ locations, nor does it share personal information that could indentify someone with third parties for marketing purposes without getting the user’s permission first.

“Apple was never tracking an individual’s location from the information residing in that cache,” Tribble told the hearing, adding that Apple had no access to the cache, and that the data was also protected from being accessed by other apps. He also told the hearing that Apple is proud of how quickly it responds to issues, and revealed that Apple randomly audits apps to ensure that they are abiding by Apple’s rules. Another interesting fact revealed by Tribble is that Apple monitors blogs and the “active community” of app users to find out about any potential violations of their rules. The offending app will then be removed within 24 hours and the developer informed of the situation, kind of like what happened recently when a Super Mario rip-off game appeared on the App Store much to everyone's surprise and was swiftly taken down once Apple got wind of it.

Source: AppleInsider | Apple, Google detail mobile privacy policies before US Senate subcommittee

 

[Gregoris]

wow for this guy to appear it must be serious