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Catherine Crump: Increasingly police are tracking our movements via our cell phones, an invasion that undermines our essential liberties

After a week of silence, Apple on Wednesday responded to widespread complaints about iPhones and iPads tracking their users' whereabouts by saying "the iPhone is not logging your location" and announcing an upcoming mobile software update.

Politicians and privacy experts demanded answers of Google and Apple Friday following the discovery that smartphone software from the tech giants regularly transmits information about a user's whereabouts back to the companies.

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Facebook on Friday proposed creating a way for people to add their locations to Facebook pages but released almost no details about how the feature will work.