Apple's Bud Tribble will testify before Senate committee, says Franken
In the ongoing commotion around location, privacy and what your iPhone knows about what you did last summer, the witness list for upcoming Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearings on mobile privacy has been announced. Senator Al Franken's (D-MN) office told The Loop that Apple's VP of software technology, Guy L. "Bud" Tribble, will be there, along with regulators, privacy advocates and Google's VP of public policy.
Franken invited the companies to send representatives to his hearing a couple of weeks ago, as the location issues were making news. Tribble has been on the hot seat before when it comes to Congressional oversight of digital privacy; he appeared at a similar hearing last summer, alongside Facebook's CTO and Google's lead privacy engineer. He's also one of the longest-serving Apple and NeXT veterans, and is credited with identifying the legendary Reality Distortion Field power of Steve Jobs. Perhaps he should borrow the field generator for his testimony.
The hearings will begin on May 10 at 10 am Eastern time. If you're watching on C-SPAN, keep an eye on the senators as Tribble enters the room... the ones that recoil and run away are almost certainly Klingons.
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I trust Apple far more than I do the Senate, House or Judges. We need to investigate them. At least they know how to handle monies. Our government sure doesn't. I want term limits, 4 yrs max - no pay or compensation other than a little for their own food and a little place for them to stay. Barracks on the campus for just them?
May 06 2011 at 1:07 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply@Michael Rose,
Stop flattering yourself and patronizing your readers. No one fell into any "honeypot" of yours. I do not take any sides on this type of thing, but it's difficult not to notice that you and most of the bloggers on TUAW appear to be very partisan (and often irrational) when it comes to your politics. You really are the last group of folks that should be calling anyone else out for being as extreme as you are.
Great! So, taxpayer dollars are being wasted on a total non-issue that was already fixed a few days ago. I guess Al and Harry didn't get the memo on that, or they just don't care. These guys are nothing but political hack jobs who aren't interested in anything but taking down a successful company. They should instead be worried about the damage that their ineptitude is doing to this country.
May 06 2011 at 12:03 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyHarry's only in the picture, Howie, not involved in the hearings -- but thanks for falling into my honeypot "let's see who's the first to blame Harry Reid for this."
May 06 2011 at 12:47 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI'd love to be a participant at that meeting just so I could start a comment with the line ... "The trouble with Tribble is ..." :)
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