on of the Fourth Amendment, which guards against unreasonable searches and seizures," were any government bodies to use the information. "Everyone I know who has an iPhone has an expectation of privacy and were not aware about the possibility and extent of intrusion," Boghosian told Salon. The potential for abuse is evident. Perhaps most concerning, Boghosian noted, is what this "ominous development" could mean for the government and other third parties' ability to amass personal information on civilians. "The ability to extract information from a wide number of iPhone users is especially disturbing given that the government maintains databases of information on activists under the guise of tracking prospective domestic terrorists. Any new vehicle for secretly extracting and amassing personal data on large numbers of users further expands the possibility for widespread, systemic abuse by the government," she said. There is some precedent for such activity. Boghosian pointed to a case in which G-20 protesters were arrested for using Twitter to spread information about police movements. She also noted the use of RFID (radio frequency identification) technology -- tracking systems that use intelligent bar codes to track items in stores -- which enable sensitive information, including credit card information, to be gathered about people without their knowing it. Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., wrote to Apple CEO Steve Jobs Thursday, Politico reports, demanding answers about the tracking technology. "Apple needs to safeguard the personal location information of its users to ensure that an iPhone doesn’t become an iTrack," Markey said in a statementuned in on Monday night, though, got a rare fright: Rose's left eye was heavily bruised and bandaged, looking for all the world as if he were trying out for a role in Wes Anderson's next picture. At the top of the show Rose explained that he'd taken a spill. But the influential tech blogger Mike Arrington -- who was recently on the show -- called up Rose's producer to ask what really happened to the host. Arrington reports that Rose tripped in a pothole walking down 59th St. in Manhattan. The host, whom Arrington says is a gadget-hound, was carrying his new MacBook Air, and thus he had a big decision to make: Protect his f