Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is calling for a federal probe into whether grabbing personal info without your authorization amounts to “an unfair or deceptive trade practice” The New York Times outed an iOS glitch that gave developers all-you-can-eat access to iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users’ video and photo libraries. Despite Apple policies prohibiting info grabs without user consent, users weren’t being notified that their data was being taken. That, says Schumer, is tantamount to theft; the notion that this could happen “sends shivers up [his] spine””]

