Lawmakers Question Cook on Apple FaceTime ‘Privacy Violation’
- House Democrats call flaw a ‘significant privacy violation’
- Apple disabled Group FaceTime while it readies software update
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Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook is getting questions from two key U.S. House Democrats about a bug that let users of its FaceTime video-chat service listen in on people they contacted even before the person accepted or rejected the call.
The flaw is “a significant privacy violation,” the leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and its subcommittee on consumer protection said in a letter to Cook dated Tuesday. The lawmakers asked when the company became aware of the flaw and “whether there are other undisclosed bugs that currently exist and have not been addressed.”