The Hill: Dem lawmakers push Apple on public health risks, iPhone slowdowns

Dem lawmakers push Apple on public health risks, iPhone slowdowns

A group of Democratic lawmakers led by Rep. Robin Kelly (D-Ill.) are pushing Apple to provide more answers on how its products can negatively affect consumers, as well as the company's slowed-down iPhones.

Kelly, a member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, requested in a letter along with other lawmakers that Apple provide more insight into smartphone addiction among children who use its products. The letter also asked for information about actions the company is taking to curb the Spectre and Meltdown chip vulnerabilities and how it slowed down its phones without letting consumers know.

House Energy and Commerce Committee members Reps. Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.) and Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), as well as Congressional Black Caucus members Reps. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-N.J.), Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio) and Marc Veasey (D-Texas), also signed the letter.