Political Quotes

On the recordMay 9, 2011
But this is what Apple's CEO Steve Jobs said to the press: 'We build a crowdsourced data base of WiFi and cell tower hotspots, but those can be over 100 miles away from where you are. Those are not telling you anything about your location.'
Said by
Al Franken
Democratic · Minnesota

Editor's note · Context

Franken cites Jobs' statement on Apple's location data practices.

Share & report

More from Al Franken

Mar 16, 2021

I have been pushing something that Norm Ornstein and I have worked on together for a long time, which would be a reform of the filibuster.

msnbc.com
Jun 1, 2021

If we lose this one, if we allow this to overturn elections, elected officials, elected Republican officials to overturn elections, our democracy goes away.

msnbc.com
Oct 4, 2021

We have to pass this bill and you can carve out and say for, you know, elections, this is our democracy.

msnbc.com
Oct 4, 2021

He’s going to send it out. He’s, as he said, you know, before the commercial, he said he’s destroyed the Senate. He did that by -- he did more filibusters of executive nominees during Obama than been done in the previous history of the…

msnbc.com

Other voices in this conversation