Apple under pressure to respond to the iPhone followed

Apple is facing pressure Thursday to respond to claims that its iPhone 4 saves sensitive location data, which are transferred and stored on the user's computer in a protected and non-encrypted format.

A Conference of technology on Wednesday, Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden, two British researchers, said a program on localization of smartphone records information and timestamp, which are then downloaded to the hard disk of the user.

The news prompted several politicians U.S. to send queries to Apple requesting clarification, including Edward Markey, a Republican member of the Massachusetts.

"I am concerned by this report and the consequences of this functionality for the privacy of individuals," Markey wrote in a letter to Steve Jobs.

Markey has asked the company to explain the question of whether the reports are true, why the company has installed the software and how it intends to serve.

Democratic Senator Al Franken sent a similar letter Wednesday.

In an e-mail Thursday, a spokesman for the Canadian Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart said "we are following this with interest.".

"The issue is location-based information, which can be very sensitive personal information," senior advisor communications Valerie Lawton wrote in an e-mail, adding that so far, the Organization had received no complaints.

Attempts to contact Apple were not successful, and the company issued a statement on the claims.

Michael Geist, University of Ottawa Law Professor, said that the software is a worrying development.

"I think that there is privacy and security that the information itself is stored in insecurity, non-encrypted, to be potentially vulnerable to hackers and to the fishing expedition by application of the Act," he said.

Geist, who also serves as the Advisory Committee of experts of the Canadian Privacy Commissioner, said that it was able to recover its own location data with its iPhone 4.

"It is astonishing to see literally everywhere wherever you've spent the last months plotted on a map," he said.

Allan and park wardens have set up a website describing in detail how the information is recorded, where he is and measures that may be taken to protect the information, including encryption of data.

In a blog on the O'Reilly Radar, a technology Web site, they said that the data collection feature seems to have emerged with the release of iOS 4 in June 2010.

Allan and Wardan said data is transmitted not anywhere elsewhere, but it is normally stored in an unprotected format. He is also transferred to a new phone from Apple when this device is synchronized with the computer.

"We are not sure why Apple is collects these data, but it is clearly intentional, as the database is being restored through backups and even migration of device,"they wrote.""

A BBC News Online article suggests users may be tacitly consenting to the disclosure of this information.

Apple publishes its terms and conditions on its website.

"We may collect information such as occupation, language, code postal, indicative, unique device identifier, location and timezone where an Apple product is used so that we can better understand customer behavior and improve our products."", services and advertising" the document said.

However, Geist said that society must do more to be transparent about how it collects personal information.

"We are talking about tens of millions of people who are affected." Even if it is in the strict letter of the law, I think that goes outside the expectation of most consumers, "he says.

Geist said that wait to see the Governments in the United States and the Canada take a more active role in the coming days.

"I think that we will see real action here," he said.

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Laurent Gbagbo under arrest - ABC Online

TONY EASTLEY: Ivory Coast's former President Laurent Gbagbo is in custody in his rival camp.

His arrest followed a deadly day in the city of Abidjan.

Signals the start of the battle, positions military with helicopter gunships targeting Mr Gbagbo UN and French troops.

There were street battles between rival forces but as Africa correspondent Ginny Stein reports, it was the arrival of the French tanks that tipped the scales.

GINNY STEIN: just who is responsible for Laurent Gbagbo arrest is a sensitive issue.

The UN is trying to make it clear that it, neither was the French, but loyal to Alassane Ouattara, the man who expects will forces that the pieces of which pick up country and it crashed after five months of deadly conflict to unite.

The UN want to make sure that opponents no ammunition to discredit his future leadership of this fragile divided nation are given Mr Ouattara.

But what is known, that a key to this point have played French and the United Nations.

Mr Gbagbo has been in the television controlled by Mr Ouattara camp, tired, appear but shown in good health. The cameras rolled his shirt, sweat and dirt away wiping changed as he.

The Ivory Coast UN commissioned Youssoufou Bamba has sworn that Mr Gbabgo is study for crimes he committed.

YOUSSOUFOU BAMBA: Gbagbo was arrested and now he is is set to a secure location for next how to.

GINNY STEIN: US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton says that the arrest of Mr Gbabgo sends a clear message to all tyrants.

HILLARY CLINTON: This move sends a strong signal to dictators and tyrants in the entire region and around the world. The voice of their own people and free and fair elections can ignore not, and there are consequences for those on the power to brackets.

GINNY stone: while everything is over for Mr Gbagbo, the people of Abidjan are still reluctant to go outside. Mercenaries continue to roam the city and result, which their relief at because Mr. Gbagbo could be arrested fatal.

Bile bile Ben lives near where the heaviest fighting took place.

BEN Galle Galle: the Gbagbo militia, they are armed, they are here in our. They are outside, they are outside, they are too much here in our area so that we not express our happiness.

GINNY STEIN: Mr Gbagbo was defeated, but this war is far from won.

All eyes focused on the city of Abidjan. Outdoor areas once loyal to Laurent Gbagbo where took place in mass murder, who knows what will happen?

This is Ginny reporting for to the stone.

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Comes after Syria's bloodiest day funeral under fire - Indian Express

The Syrian security forces opened fire Saturday a funeral March disperse after 37 people killed a human rights group said a day earlier on the bloodiest day of the Country?s uprising.

Several people were injured in the shooting in Deraa, Ammar Qurabi, head of the national Syria?s organisation for human rights said. The Group?s was information of local residents and eye-witnesses in the city.

Deraa has become a flashpoint for violence, which the Government blamed on armed gangs, which instead true reform search. However, have the calls shaken President Bashar Assad for reform, whose Familie Syria ruled for more than 40 years.

On Friday, witnesses said security forces fire on tens of thousands of demonstrators in Deraa, 30 people killed and hundreds injured opened. The Government gave a different account, said 19 police officers and members of the security forces as a number of civilians were killed when armed opened fire on them.

The different accounts could be verified independently. But it was the first major claim of the victims of the Government and could signal plans for a stronger succeed.

Security forces to disperse hundreds of demonstrators in the important port city of Latakia live ammunition fired early Saturday morning, ? the heart of the ruling elite.

Residents reported hearing hours of heavy gunfire overnight as forcibly security forces broke up the sit-in.

?The shoot went for two hours, it was frightening, ?, a resident said. There was no immediate word on victims recordings.

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Utility under increasing pressure

Demonstrators before, Tokyo electric power company building in Tokyo on Sunday for an end of the Kernkraft.Polizei ring Tokyo Electric Headquarters during ProtestThe embattled utility says that its employees have received death of ThreatsWorkers at a company, dorm "are nervous", says manager

Tokyo (CNN) - already confronting the nuclear accident of a historic earthquake, Japan's largest utility is now overlooking a sharp loss of public confidence and threats are to your employees, what it says.

In daily press conferences, spokesman for the Tokyo electric power company told reporters that they do their best to end a crisis that has forced to improvise them new solutions. But the company has, in the last week had important data about the conditions of the nuclear power plant retreat Fukushima Daiichi. And their financial future has tarnished was by the amount of compensation you must, after the Katastrophe--a step spokesman Junichi Masumoto figures Sunday evening recognized, that it "still" concrete plans to make.

Criticism almost daily with 40,000 public complaints, which has grown every day, in their offices, the company said. Its President, Masataka Shimizu, was hospitalized last week because of "Fatigue and stress," company President Tsunehisa Katsumata acquisition in his absence.

And the utility facing other difficult questions Sunday, when you said that it the bodies of two missing workers in the basement of the No. 4 reactor's turbine plant four days earlier had found. Spokesman said it the families held off reporting the discovery to notify and discuss with them how earthquake had missed the news about the two men, to announce that since the March 11.

Police have been awarded in Tokyo, company dormitories and the utility to protect Tokyo's downtown headquarters. Scores of officers were outside the flagship building Sunday afternoon 250 people on a damp, chilly day to demand an end of nuclear power was booked out.

"It is high time that we abolished nuclear power plants," said Makoto Yanagida, Co-Director of the atom group House Tanpopo ("Dandelion"), which organized the rally. "We want those to stop for the disaster on nuclear energy and is responsible for the protection of our posterity."

Demonstrators included many years anti-nuclear activists, rapper, drummer, guitarist, and a female impersonator uphold a sign saying Japan's Government, "Shame on you." They marched from TEPCO's headquarters of building, in the Japanese Ministry of economy, trade and industry, about four blocks away are.

Critics such as Hiroko IKE, one of the demonstrators, saying on Sunday that the close ties between the utility and the Government hard the crisis there for them to official statements of believe.

"The Government think I can't," said IKE, a 32-year-old Tokyo woman. "It sounds stupid, but I Japan want to escape." She said most Japanese against Atomic-"but I think that we feel a responsibility to the our Government."

A survey by Kyodo News Agency in late March found published, that equally divided on nuclear energy, with about 47 percent, which would Japan that power plants shut down and the same number of supporting nuclear power.

Online, calls for company officials have punished but will increase. "How you a TEPCO Executive run" was a line of comment, with several suggested that the utility bosses in the damaged plant should be enforced.

Company officials have their Geh?lter-and Privatadressen--on the Internet to spread and photos of a home, the workers in a Tokyo neighborhood houses also were booked. And, as a CNN people in the facility to interview, quickly showed up six policemen tried.

A company Manager said "The people who live here are nervous,". "That's the Fukushima incident all because of the."CNN's Kyung LAH, Whitney Hurst and Shiro TAKATA contributed to this report.

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City room: Sanitation workers is under attack

A city sanitation Department worker was attacked and was a threatened a motorist was angry when he could not their truck as she raised said the authorities trash, on Saturday.

Officials said the attack Friday unfolds at 7:30 pm as the worker, Vincent DeBlasio and Beverly Watson, made their way to the North along the East 96th Street, between Rutland road and East New York Avenue in East Flatbush.

The Union that represents them, the Uniformed Sanitationmen Association, quickly renewed its call to national law, an attack on a sanitation workers would make it a crime.

Mr DeBlasio, 30, said that he was busy download living garbage in the back of the truck was a car drawn upwards and the driver "very angry" he could not stand.

"He has out of the car, and he said ' Park the thing;" Put the somewhere, truck ' ", Mr DeBlasio, said that the Department on Dec. 13 joined. '"My partner said, ' can not set we everywhere, it is this anywhere to this truck set.' "He to give us a chance."

The man then cursed and threatened Ms Watson, returned to his car and began talking about a cell phone, added Mr DeBlasio. He said he then noticed another man, who with a woman at the curb, way to him as a trash can had been emptied.

"While I was in the middle of the store, I got stamped right in the mouth," said Mr DeBlasio.

Mr DeBlasio fell backward, hitting his elbow and his head. The attacker ran and entered a building on the corner. Mrs Watson referred to a supervisor, who then called the police.

Were officers from the 67th Precinct "in a very short time", said Mr DeBlasio.

The officers arrested the man in the car, as Henry rink, 28, Brooklyn identified. Mr. rink was accused in the path of the sanitation workers, which prevents that they their work by State administration and harassment disability and threatening, punch, Mrs Watson, said the police.

According to the information on the website of the State Department of Correctional Services Mr. rink was little more than five years in prison for robbery, burglary and assault convictions. 2006 He was released into the care of parole.

Mr DeBlasio was for cuts and other minor injuries at the Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center treated. Investigators were still the man search, who punched him.

On Saturday, the Union on the case to promote their cause legislation in Albany passing it a crime, sanitation workers attack would seize. Sanitation workers would equality, in law, with their colleagues civil service in fire and police departments of the city.

"This legislation, if a crime for the attacks on the city has all other workers, then a crime to have let to you because we everyday are out on the street," said Harry Nespoli, President of the Association of the Uniformed Sanitationmen.

"It seems as it happens more and more to us." As soon as the weather is better, which are people more driving around and they are very impatient. All we do is our task to do. "We recognize that people in a hurry, but we just try to do our work."

Mr DeBlasio said that workers always, "on the back of" your mind, the possibility of violence. But he said in this case there was really nowhere else for them, to the truck and that the attacker "does not give us a chance," to get out of the way.

"It was 15 feet from where the exchange of words, which I happen stamped took," he said. "We were just working." Not a word was out of my mouth; "All the words were partner and man between my."

All said Mr Nespoli, sanitation do their best workers to stay by driver out of the way. He added however, that workers on verbal jibes and bad, and are increasingly exposed.

"We trying to get the block to you courtesy, go," he said, adding that at the same time, his workers have to offset trash get their commitment.

"We can hide with this truck;" "It is a big white elephant is", he said. "We should not in the House and we continue to have in a tempo move." But if the big, we will be a while there. "It is not everyone give a right to get their hands."

Mr a. Nespoli said that the legislation was introduced last year in Albany, after an other sanitation attacked workers with a shovel in Manhattan. But he said the Bill "only there died."

Jim Grossman, a spokesman for the Union, said the Bill had passed in the Senate last year but "it was reports never Committee," in the State Assembly.

Vito A. Turso, a spokesman for the sanitation Department, said, "New York City sanitation workers very hard work and many challenges are on their routes and their safety is the paramount concern of the Department." "So we would support this pending legislation."

A spokesman for Governor Andrew M. Cuomo could not immediately comment on the problem.

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