The ?Locationgate? scandal that saw so much coverage back in April hasn?t been in the news much lately, but that hasn?t stopped lawmakers from trying to prevent similar situations. Two senators, Al Franken of Minnesota and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, have proposed a mobile privacy bill today hoping to strengthen the level of consent needed for app developers and device makers to collect and share location data. In case you?ve been living under a rock (in a location already stored on your phone, no doubt), it all started when two researchers in Britain discovered that Apple?s iPhone and iPad had been recording location data, and storing it on the device. This had people up in arms, of course, and it was only a matter of time until Google was discovered to be doing the same thing. Since then, people have been pretty peeved about it, so much so that the long arm of the law is getting involved.
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