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蘋果用戶被迫洩漏地點 德政府不滿
中央社 更新日期:"2010/06/27 06:35"
（中央社記者林育立柏林26日專電）一向宣稱保護個人隱私的美商蘋果電腦（Apple），近日修改使用者條款，iPhone用戶被迫分享所在的位置，德國政府對此表示不滿，要求蘋果公開收集的數據。
德國法務部長柳修瑟-奚納倫柏格（SabineLeutheusser-Schnarrenberger）告訴「明鏡」（DerSpiegel）週刊說，蘋果「必須馬上公開到底收集了什麼數據、儲存多久、用來做什麼」。
她說，iPhone和其他衛星定位器材的用戶，有必要知道那些個人資料被收集，「蘋果執行長左伯斯（Steve Jobs）有責任將他一再強調的透明付諸行動」。
儘管蘋果強調，收集到的位置資料將匿名處理，德國聯邦政府指派的個人資料保護高級專員夏爾（PeterSchaar ）指出，只要企業從某一特定的器材收集數據，而且知道使用者是誰，就是個人資料。
根據德國法律，他說，即便資料接下來被匿名處理，使用者還是有權事先知道收集的內容、目的和儲存的地點。
蘋果收集用戶的位置，顯然為了配合即將在7月初推出的行動廣告平台iAd。
市場研究機構IDC的專家魏登（Karsten Weide）說，沒有定位用戶所在的位置，行動網路未來就幾乎不可能有廣告。990626
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65P1LP20100626
Germany says Apple must improve data transparency
BERLIN
Sat Jun 26, 2010 11:24am EDT
A customer tries out the new iPhone 4 at Apple Inc's store in the Ginza district of Tokyo June 24, 2010. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao
A customer tries out the new iPhone 4 at Apple Inc's store in the Ginza district of Tokyo June 24, 2010.
Credit: Reuters/Yuriko Nakao
BERLIN (Reuters) - Apple Inc must "immediately make clear" what data it collects from users of its products and for what purposes, Germany's justice minister was quoted as saying by Der Spiegel magazine on Saturday.
ipad | Media
"Users of iPhones and other GPS devices must be aware of what kind of information about them is being collected," Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger told the German weekly.
According to Der Spiegel, the minister's criticism was aimed at changes Apple has made in its privacy policy whereby the company can collect data on the geographic location of the users of its products -- albeit anonymously.
Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger said she expected Apple to "open its databases to German data protection authorities" and clarify what data it was collecting and how long it was saving the data.
An Apple spokesman said he could not comment on the report.
Germany has some of the toughest privacy laws in the world as a result of its experience with state surveillance systems once put in place by the Nazis and the former East German Stasi secret police.
The German consumer protection minister made headlines earlier this month when she said she would quit Facebook over what she called privacy law violations.
Meanwhile, after an audit requested by Germany, Google Inc in May acknowledged it had been for years mistakenly collecting personal data sent by consumers over wireless networks.
The justice minister said it would be "unthinkable" for Apple to create personality- or location-based user profiles.
"Apple has the obligation to properly implement the transparency so often promised by (CEO) Steve Jobs," she said.
(Reporting by Sarah Marsh; Editing by Ron Askew)
蘋果用戶被迫洩漏地點 德政府不滿
中央社 更新日期:"2010/06/27 06:35"
（中央社記者林育立柏林26日專電）一向宣稱保護個人隱私的美商蘋果電腦（Apple），近日修改使用者條款，iPhone用戶被迫分享所在的位置，德國政府對此表示不滿，要求蘋果公開收集的數據。
德國法務部長柳修瑟-奚納倫柏格（SabineLeutheusser-Schnarrenberger）告訴「明鏡」（DerSpiegel）週刊說，蘋果「必須馬上公開到底收集了什麼數據、儲存多久、用來做什麼」。
她說，iPhone和其他衛星定位器材的用戶，有必要知道那些個人資料被收集，「蘋果執行長左伯斯（Steve Jobs）有責任將他一再強調的透明付諸行動」。
儘管蘋果強調，收集到的位置資料將匿名處理，德國聯邦政府指派的個人資料保護高級專員夏爾（PeterSchaar ）指出，只要企業從某一特定的器材收集數據，而且知道使用者是誰，就是個人資料。
根據德國法律，他說，即便資料接下來被匿名處理，使用者還是有權事先知道收集的內容、目的和儲存的地點。
蘋果收集用戶的位置，顯然為了配合即將在7月初推出的行動廣告平台iAd。
市場研究機構IDC的專家魏登（Karsten Weide）說，沒有定位用戶所在的位置，行動網路未來就幾乎不可能有廣告。990626
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65P1LP20100626
Germany says Apple must improve data transparency
BERLIN
Sat Jun 26, 2010 11:24am EDT
A customer tries out the new iPhone 4 at Apple Inc's store in the Ginza district of Tokyo June 24, 2010. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao
A customer tries out the new iPhone 4 at Apple Inc's store in the Ginza district of Tokyo June 24, 2010.
Credit: Reuters/Yuriko Nakao
BERLIN (Reuters) - Apple Inc must "immediately make clear" what data it collects from users of its products and for what purposes, Germany's justice minister was quoted as saying by Der Spiegel magazine on Saturday.
ipad | Media
"Users of iPhones and other GPS devices must be aware of what kind of information about them is being collected," Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger told the German weekly.
According to Der Spiegel, the minister's criticism was aimed at changes Apple has made in its privacy policy whereby the company can collect data on the geographic location of the users of its products -- albeit anonymously.
Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger said she expected Apple to "open its databases to German data protection authorities" and clarify what data it was collecting and how long it was saving the data.
An Apple spokesman said he could not comment on the report.
Germany has some of the toughest privacy laws in the world as a result of its experience with state surveillance systems once put in place by the Nazis and the former East German Stasi secret police.
The German consumer protection minister made headlines earlier this month when she said she would quit Facebook over what she called privacy law violations.
Meanwhile, after an audit requested by Germany, Google Inc in May acknowledged it had been for years mistakenly collecting personal data sent by consumers over wireless networks.
The justice minister said it would be "unthinkable" for Apple to create personality- or location-based user profiles.
"Apple has the obligation to properly implement the transparency so often promised by (CEO) Steve Jobs," she said.
(Reporting by Sarah Marsh; Editing by Ron Askew)
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