Congress

Congress asks Apple to clean up their address book privacy policy, Apple promises tighter control in future iOS update

By Simon Sage, Wednesday, Feb 15, 2012 a 3:31 pm

After the whole mess with social networking app, Path, uploading Contact data from iPhone users without asking, the U.S. Congress has started to get involved. Energy and Commerce Committee member Henry Waxman and Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee member G. K. Butterfield issued an open letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook asking some probing questions regarding the iOS developer agreement.

Only 6 days left to help keep jailbreak exemption in DMCA -- act now!

By Allyson Kazmucha, Friday, Feb 3, 2012 a 5:28 pm

We have 6 days left to keep jailbreaking legal and extend the DMCA exception that is set to expire soon. ifixit.org has an interesting interview up with the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) and Andrew "bunnie" Huang, author of Hacking the Xbox.

iPhone to Replace Blackberry in Congress?

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Oct 22, 2008 a 5:53 pm

US tax dollars at work dept.: TUAW is reporting (via TheHill.com) that the Chief Administrative Office of the U.S Congress is testing iPhones due to "people requesting them as an option":