The developers have until April 12

After asking an Apple representative burberry handbags to appear in Washington to discuss its mobile device privacy policies, U.S. lawmakers have now turned their attention to third-party application developers on the company's iOS platform as well.

Reps. Henry Waxman and G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.) today posted letters they sent to Apple CEO Tim Cook, as well as 33 high-profile, third-party companies with apps on Apple's iOS platform. Some of those companies include Twitter, Foursquare, Path, Pinterest, Facebook and LinkedIn.

The letters cite last month's incident wherein third-party social app Path was found to be collecting user address book information without asking. That incident led to Apple announcing that such burberry shirts for women cheap activities were in violation of its developer guidelines, and that apps would not be allowed in the company's App Store if they exhibited that behavior.

In today's letters, the congressman say they want to "better understand the information collection and use policies and practices of apps," though particularly ones that have a "social element."

Among the questions is a very point blank one asking if developers have ever transmitted the contents of a user's address book, and if those developers had privacy systems in place ahead of Apple saying such behavior was a violation of its policies. Ray ban sunglasses, cheap gucci sunglasses, burberry sunglasses sale. It also asks about storage of said user information, and what exactly it was being used for.

As a result of privacy issues on mobile devices cropping up, Apple, Google, Microsoft and other platform companies have agreed to require app developers to have privacy policies for their software going forward. That move was pushed by California Attorney General Kamala Harris.

Nonetheless, this volley of letters is the latest effort by Congress to extract information from Apple about its privacy policies, and the first in this matter to do the same from a wide group of third-party developers. Last month, Waxman and Butterfield sent a letter just to Cook, asking Apple to clarify its privacy policies with regards to the data that apps can collect.

After receiving a response, the congressman last week sent a follow-up letter to Cook, saying the reply it received did not answer burberry ties all its questions, as well as adding new questions about additional data privacy concerns. That request also asked for Apple to send a company representative to appear in person before the Energy and Commerce Committee, versus sending in another written response.

This is not the first time third-party app developers have been included in a Congressional investigation into Apple's policies. This time last year, Apple, along with Google and Research in Motion were Oakley sunglasses targeted for allowing applications that alerted users to the presence of police and other law enforcement checkpoints that had been set up to combat drunk driving. While some of these policies were changed and apps removed, some were left alone after removing offending features.

The developers have until April 12, 2012 to return Burberry skirts for kids cheap 2012 new beige grey that information to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, the letters say.

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