Apple And Google Called Back To Senate To Testify With Facebook On Thursday

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CNET reports that Apple and Google have been called back to the Senate to continue to testify on privacy concerns which surfaced when it was revealed that Apple had been storing location information on iPhones and backing that up on PCs/Macs. This time Facebook was invited to speak as well.

The Senate will hold the hearing on May 19 at 10 a.m. Eastern time.

Although Senate hearings can be boring (see above), we did get some interesting information about Apple’s upcoming plans for crowdsourcing traffic data from this whole mess. (Cross-posted from 9to5Google.com)

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