Apple chief executive Steve Jobs has gone on the record about the company's plans to answer inquiries made by US government officials, including the House Energy and Commerce Committee, following the location question-and-answer document Apple published earlier on Wednesday.
Steve Jobs says the company will answer inquiries from the US government over iPhone tracking. Photo credit: CNET News
"I think Apple will be testifying," Jobs said in an interview with All Things Digital. "They have asked us to come and we will honour their request, of course."
Immediately following the discovery on 20 April of the iOS database file containing time-stamped nearby cell tower, Wi-Fi and GPS information, Apple was questioned by prominent US lawmakers over the company's intentions. Apple responded to the matter publicly for the first time in its Q&A document on Wednesday, saying that the company was in no way tracking users, and that the location file was just a small part of a secured, crowd-sourced database Apple maintains to speed up location-finding on iOS devices.
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