Department may be looking at antitrust investigation: The Justice Department has sent a pointed letter to the NCAA asking why there isn’t a playoff system for major college football. The department has been urged to launch an antitrust investigation into college football’s Bowl Championship Series, to ensure that some schools don’t get preferential treatment in access to the national championship game. The Justice Department’s antitrust chief, Christine Varney, asked NCAA President Mark Emmert what steps have been taken toward a playoff system. Varney told Emmert that his views would help the department decide the “best course of action” to take with the BCS. BCS Executive Director Bill Hancock says he’s confident that the BCS complies with the law. The NCAA didn’t immediately respond to a request from the Associated Press for comment.
Device will store data for a week: Apple is updating the iPhone to reduce the amount of time the device stores information about its users’ whereabouts. The software released today follows through on Apple’s recent promise to revise a feature that logged iPhone users’ movements for up to a year. Apple says the location data won’t be kept for more than a week after the changes to the iPhone’s operating system are installed. Apple faced a backlash from privacy watchdogs and some indignant iPhone owners after researchers at a conference last week showed how the surveillance technology could be abused. Apple, the world’s most valuable technology company, denied it was spying on iPhone users. But it acknowledged a software bug could cause potential privacy problems, prompting the latest tweaks to the iPhone’s operating system.
