Steve Jobs: We’re Not Tracking Anyone, but Android Is

Steve Jobs himself has reportedly answered a subscriber's question about the recent iPhone trailing scandal.

A MacRumors lecturer apparently emailed Jobs interrogatory for "clarification" on the way out, MacRumors reported Mon.

The reader asked Jobs why location-trailing inside iOS was necessary, and–possibly to bait the Apple CEO into responding–threatened to change over to Android, stating "they don't track ME."

Man of a couple of words

Jobs allegedly responded in typical forge–sawn-off and scented–calling the reports on Apple's tracking efforts "false." He also highlighted that Mechanical man was even as guilty of following our every move. "Oh yes they do. We don't track anyone," Jobs wrote. "The info circulating or so is false."

With Congress and the Feds now looking into the issue, Orchard apple tree (and Google, too) have a unconditional interest in allaying whatsoever fears. The story is hit the mainstream media, which means the pressure to come clean will only increase equally time goes on. In any case the information supposedly existence collected may not necessarily be all that valuable, or even very accurate.

Very much ado about nothing?

Users who have used the iPhone Tracker from the O'Reilly researchers that first disclosed the tracking issue write up that the iPhone appears to track you to the closest tower rather than pinpoint your exact positioning. ADD to this that some Google and Apple have said that the information is anonymized when collected, and the entire uproar seems a bit "Chicken Little."

Jobs' comment is the first we've heard from Apple since the public disclosure of the tracking database last calendar week, just information technology's probably not sufficient to allay people's fears. I'm willing to bet that this is non the in conclusion we've heard from Apple–especially now that the government is involved.

Don't be too surprised if in the next few weeks or months hearings are held happening Capitol Hill. Privacy is a hot-clitoris matter in American capital, and politicians will jump at the chance to appear 'on top' of this issue. Whether anything will in reality come out of it, however, is questionable.