tribble? >> senator coburn, if there are four or five things the justice department thinks the congress should consider but most are not particular to mobile devices. the reason they are not all specific to mobile devices is think it's important for the prospective the threats you see in terms of cybercrime is on mobile devices are just new variations on old problems. when someone puts now we're in your computer because the attached to an e-mail that is a threat. if someone uses an android as a does this old school cybercrime with of the technology so what we need to protect the privacy is the same to be able to fight cybercrime generally. that being said, number one, there are a number of further fixes to 10:30 you can be on that contained in the identity theft enforcement restitution act we believe are appropriate and would strengthen penalties and deterrents and make sure there's more significant consequences for cybercrime. we anticipate they will be a part of the cedras security package w

tribble. >> i asked why they were building a comprehensive location data base on iphones and ipads and storing it on people's computers when they synced up. apple's reply will be added to the record. "we build a crowd source data base of wi-fi hot spots, but they can be over 100 miles away from where you are. those are not telling you anything about your location." yet, in a written statement issued that same week, apple explained that this very same data will, "help your iphone rapidly and accurately calculate its location or as the associated press summarized it, the data help the phone figure out its location, apple said, but steve jobs says those are not telling you anything about your location. mr. tribble, it doesn't appear both statements can be true at the same time. >> senator -- >> with this data -- >> sorry. >> does this data -- i understand, you are anticipating the question, and i'll just ask it and you'll answer. does it indicate anything about your location or doesn't it? >> senator, the data that's stored in the data base is the location of as many wi-fi hot spots and c

tribbles? >> good morning, chairman franken, ranking member coburn, and members of the subcommittee. i'm bud troubles, software technology for apple. thank you for the opportunity to further explain apple's approach to location privacy. i want to use my time to emphasize a few key points. first, apple's deeply committed to protecting the privacy of all of our customers. we adopted a single comprehensive privacy policy for all products. this policy is available from a link on every page of apple's website. we do not share personally identifiable information with others without the customer's concept and require all third party application developers agree to specific restrictions protecting our customer's privacy. second, apple does not track user's locations. apple has never done so and has no plans to do so. our customers want and expect their mobile devices to quickly and reliably determine their locations for specific activities such as shopping, travel, or finding the nearest restaurant. fr

tribble. >> good morning. my name is bud tribble. thank you for the opportunity to further explain apple's approach to mobile privacy. i would like to use my time to emphasize a few key points. apple is deeply committed to protecting the privacy of all of our customers. we have adopted a single privacy for all four -- a single privacy policy for all our products. we do not share personally identifiable information with third parties without our customers' consent. there have to be specific -- apple does not track users location. apple has never done so. our customers want and expect it mobile devices to be able to quickly determine their current locations for specific activities such as shopping are funding the nearest restaurant. calculate a phones location using gps satellite can take up to several moments. iphone can do this quickly. to accomplish this goal, couple maintains a secure crowd source database containing information with known applications to wifi hot spots that apple collects from millions of devices. during this coll

apple software executive bud tribble adds the location data is also anonymous. >> apple was never tracking an individual's location from the information residing in that cache. furthermore, the location data that was seen on the iphone was not the past or present location of the iphone, but rather the location of wifi hotspots and cell towers around the iphone's location. >> reporter: but franken also called as a witness consultant ashkan soltani, who says, if mobile phone data can be used to find criminals, it can find individual consumers, too. >> it's really difficult to call this stuff anonymous. making those claims is not really sincere. >> reporter: lawmakers were concerned about finding better ways to alert consumers when their location data is being shared with other companies. apple says it hasn't removed any apps from its store for location-related violations. instead, the company says it tries to make sure bad software is screened out before it makes it onto an iphone. google says it does not monitor apps in the android marketplace. instead, alan davidson, director of public pol

, about 2,000 customers in canada affected, but it's still leading people to wonder if additional tribble is coming. for a look at that and the rest of your news before the bell, we turn to "today in the bay's" nicole lapin live at cnbc world headquarters. good morning again. >> reporter: laura, i've missed you. it's been about four minutes. so here are some of the other headlines making news this morning. people are paying more to fuel up these days, we know that, but this time it's affecting coffee. price increases for a cup of java are outpacing even gasoline. a cup cost $5.10 last month. regular unleaded averaging $3.83 a gallon which compared to coffee is only up 37%. j.m. smucker which owns folgers and dunkin donuts packaged brands are raising their prices for the fourth time in the past year and starbucks is also raising prices for its packaged coffee. i know, bad news for us on the morning show. >>> also this morning, amazon striking back at barnes & noble. on the very same day the book seller had a touch screen book of the eh reader, amazon is offering a new kindle. it costs $164

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tribble, it doesn't appear to me that both of these statements can be true at the same time. this data -- does this data, i understand you're anticipating my question, so i would just ask and you answer it. does this data indicate anything about your location, or doesn't it? >> senator, the data that is stored in the database is the location of as many wifi hotspots and cell phone towers as we can have. that data does not actually contain in our databases in the customer information at all. it's completely anonymous. it's only about the cell phone towers and the wifi hotspots. however, when a portion of the database is downloaded onto your phone, your phone also knows which hotspot and cell phone, cell phone towers it can receive right now. so the combination of where are those towers and hotspots plus your phone knowing which ones it can receive right now is how the phone figures out where it is without the gps. >> well, right after that the senator asked one of the other witnesses who is a private consultant who worked with "the wall street journal" and is worth the of risk