Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Rep. G. K. Butterfield (D-N.C.) sent a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook asking for a personal briefing about the company’s app policy. They expressed frustration with the lack of responsiveness by the company to questions they had submitted about Apple's app policy in a letter last month.
“The March 2 reply we received from Apple does not answer a number of the questions we raised about the company’s efforts to protect the privacy and security of its mobile device users", they wrote in a March 14 letter.
In response to the original letter, Apple announced that it would require iPhone and iPad applications to seek explicit approval from users before accessing users’ address book data. However, an article in the New York Times suggested that apps are also able to access private photos of users with their permission.
“Subsequent to our letter, concerns have been raised about the manner in which apps can access photographs on your mobile devices and tools provided by Apple to consumers to prevent unwanted online tracking. To help us understand these issues, we request that you make available representatives to brief our staff on the Energy and Commerce Committee”, the lawmakers wrote.
Apple declined to publicly comment on the second letter.