Two lawmakers-- Rep. Henry Waxman, ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Rep. G.K. Butterfield -- have asked that Apple respond to a series of questions about the company's polices for verifying the privacy practices of mobile application developers such as Path.

U.S Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY), meanwhile, has called on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Apple and Google for similar reasons

The outcry stemming from the programmer's disclosure pushed Path CEO and co-founder Dave Morin to quickly issue a .

In his blog post, Morin acknowledged that the company had made a mistake in gathering the data but noted that the information was collected purely to improve the quality of friend suggestions made by the application.

Last month, Path was one of 18 companies hit with a for allegedly distributing privacy invading mobile applications.