The Apple and Google location tracking controversy may soon be fully addressed in legislation. Ever since news of Apple’s unencrypted storage of location data on iPhones broke, Senators Al Franken and Richard Blumenthal have been hot on their tails, summoning both Apple and Google for congressional hearings on the matter. Now the duo are submitting a bill that would require explicit consent for location data.
The bill is called the “Location Privacy Protection Act of 2011″
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