Apple and Google may pull DUI checkpoint apps

Release Date 11 May, 2011 in TG Daily

 
   

Google, Apple Pressed to Remove DUI Checkpoint Apps

PCWorld - Ian Paul - 11 May, 2011
Google and Apple are under pressure from Senator Charles Schumer to remove smartphone apps that alert users to the locations of nearby police DUI checkpoints. These apps typically use your device's GPS ...

Schumer Grills Apple, Google About DUI Checkpoint Apps

PC Magazine - Chloe Albanesius - 11 May, 2011
Sen. Charles Schumer used his time at Tuesday's cell-phone tracking hearing to question Google and Apple about the inclusion of DUI checkpoint apps in their app stores. Both companies said they are reviewing their terms and how the ...

Apple Has Removed 'Zero' Apps for Location-Related Violations

PC Magazine - Chloe Albanesius - 11 May, 2011
Apple has not removed any apps from its App Store for violations related to location-based services, Apple executive Guy Tribble told a Senate subcommittee Tuesday. In most cases, Apple tries to identify potentially troublesome apps ...

DUI Checkpoint Apps May Vanish After Senator Demands Review

Cult of Mac - Killian Bell - 11 May, 2011
iOS applications that alert drivers to DUI checkpoints and speed traps could soon be pulled from the App Store following a review by Apple that will determine whether or not these applications are illegal. ...

Google, Apple pressed on DUI checkpoint apps

San Jose Business Journal - Cromwell Schubarth - 11 May, 2011
Apple and Google representatives were grilled in a Senate hearing Tuesday about smartphone apps that reveal DUI checkpoints. US Sen. Charles Schumer grilled representatives of Google Inc. and Apple Inc. during a privacy hearing on Tuesday about ...

Senators press Apple, Google to ban apps that game DUI checkpoints

9 to 5 Mac - 11 May, 2011
Bud Tribble, Apple's long-time vice president of software engineering, testified before a US Senate subcommittee yesterday alongside Google's US director of public policy Alan Davidson. The two executives fielded questions from Senators related to ...

Apple and Google may pull DUI checkpoint apps

TG Daily - Emma Woollacott - 11 May, 2011
Apple and Google have agreed to review applications alerting drivers to DUI checkpoints to consider whether they facilitate illegal activity. The concession follows a grilling from senator Charles E Schumer, who believes such apps are an avtive aid to ...

Schumer Secures Commitment from Google And Apple Execs to Review Dangerous ...

TMC Net - 11 May, 2011
(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Schumer Secures Commitment from Google And Apple Execs to Review Dangerous Apps That Allow Drivers to Avoid Drunk Driving Checkpoints - Companies Agree to Report Back to Congress Within a Month ...

Apple looking into senate request for DUI checkpoint app removals

Apple Insider - Josh Ong - 11 May, 2011
During a US Senate subcommittee hearing on Tuesday, Apple Vice President of Software Technology Guy L. "Bud" Tribble told senators that the company is in the process of "looking into" the legality of apps that broadcast police DUI ...

Apple Dominates as Paid Apps are Moving on Up

brandchannel.com - Sheila Shayon - 11 May, 2011
As Google aims its bow at Apple and reveals a slate of new services for Android, consider the latest research report from IHS iSuppli, on the state of the mobile marketplace. iSuppli projects that revenue from the four top app stores - Apple's iTunes ...

Apple and Google agree to review DUI app policy

Wireless Week - 11 May, 2011
By CNET Tuesday, May 10, 2011 Apple and Google today agreed to conduct a review of applications that make use of DUI checkpoints to see if they violate each company's mobile application store guidelines. That decision came during today's congressional ...

Want Privacy? Nevermind. We Want to Censor!

Cato @ Liberty - Jim Harper - 11 May, 2011
Senator Chuck Schumer rounds out a trifecta of bloggable moments from the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law's hearing this morning. Ignoring the subject of the “mobile privacy” hearing, Schumer queried the witnesses from ...

News 10 WTEN: Albany, New York News, Weather, SportsSchumer presses Apple ...

WTEN - ‎May 10, 2011‎
Entertainment News from AP Entertainment News from AP ALBANY, NY - US Senator Charles E. Schumer will press top Apple Inc. and Google Inc. executives on their refusal to remove from their online stores software applications that help drunk drivers ...

Mushroom management

Mobile Business Briefing (blog) - ‎May 10, 2011‎
In the last few weeks, Apple's App Store polices have again been in the spotlight. It has been reported that the company has revamped its app store ranking policies to take additional criteria, such as customer engagement, into account alongside total ...

Apps 'growing in popularity with mobile phone users'

Mazuma Mobile - ‎May 10, 2011‎
More apps are being sold to mobile phone users than ever before, with revenue from the tools set to rise by 77.7 per cent this year. Research by iSuppli found that the total money taken by the industry's four leading providers " Apple, Google, ...

Apple and Google agree to review DUI app policy

CNET - Josh Lowensohn - 11 May, 2011
A screen of Fuzz Alert, named by Senator Charles Schumer today during a congressional hearing, has already been taken off RIM's BlackBerry App World. Apple and Google today agreed to conduct a review of applications that make use of ...

 

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