Tue, 10 May 2011 23:50:05 +0200 (AFP/Getty Images/File) - Apple and Google, facing questioning from skeptical US lawmakers, defended their privacy practices before a congressional committee on Tuesday. "I believe that consumers have a fundamental right to know what data is being collected about them," Senator Al Franken, pictured in March 2011, said at a hearing of the newly created Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Chip Somodevilla)