Lawmakers Aim Mobile Privacy Push at Apple, Google, Facebook
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U.S. lawmakers, considering legislation aimed at protecting consumers’ online privacy, said the market for smartphone applications needs to be regulated to prevent the inappropriate sharing of user data.
As mobile devices “become more powerful, more personal information is being concentrated in one place,” Senator Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, said today during a Senate Commerce subcommittee hearing in Washington on mobile privacy. “These devices are not really phones -- they are miniature computers.”