Apple Sued Over iPhone Location Logging

POST

MAIL

Posted April 25, 2011 at 3:37pm by Shalom Levytam

In addition to numerous investigations by privacy regulators, Apple is now being sued in federal court over its iPhone location logging practices, according to Bloomberg.

Apple Inc. (AAPL) was sued for alleged privacy invasion and computer fraud by two customers who claim the company is secretly recording and storing the location and movement of iPhone and iPad users, according to a federal complaint filed today in Tampa, Florida.

[via Troy]

Get the iClarified Daily Newsletter

Apple news, rumors, tutorials, price drop alerts, in your inbox every evening, free.

Unsubscribe at any time.

Add Comment

Would you like to be notified when someone replies or adds a new comment?

Yes (All Threads)

Yes (This Thread Only)

Notifications

Would you like to be notified when we post a new Apple news article or tutorial?

Yes

Comments (5)

Comments are closed for this article.

dancj - April 25, 2011 at 4:50pm

What's to sue over? There's no evidence that I'm aware of that the info ever makes it off the phone. I suspect it's something innocuous like a list of likely pylons so that the iPhone can be a bit more efficient connecting to a pylon that it's connected to before.

rbs2000 - April 25, 2011 at 4:22pm

Where is my stolen iPhone 4 then? If they could track iPhones where is my iPhone 4 then? They can collect every movement of the iPhone and iPad users but they can't locate my property.

Nick - April 25, 2011 at 4:10pm

I bet the people that are suing Apple are just money hungry, so they saw the opportunity and took it. It's in Apple's best interest to hurry up and respond to people and tell them what's going on, what happens to that information, and why they are collecting it. Sometimes Apple has to realize that they need to explain themselves instead of just hiding in secrecy. I mean they should have seen this coming from the moment they implemented that tracking and had a strategy for explaining it, if they didn't, they need to re-evaluate some things internally.

Joe N. - April 25, 2011 at 4:04pm

I really hope this case goes through. Looks like the tables have turned eh Apple?

Fat Chance - April 25, 2011 at 3:55pm

Good luck suing over something you agreed to. It's called the Terms of Service. Nobody reads them but they are there nonetheless.

Recent. Read the latest Apple News.

RECENT

Anthropic Launches Claude Sonnet 5 With Major Gains in Agentic Performance

Apple Updates Creator Studio With AI Tools for Final Cut Pro, Pixelmator Pro, and Logic Pro

Supreme Court to Hear Apple's Appeal of App Store Contempt Ruling

UK Regulator Proposes Forcing Apple to Allow Alternative App Store Payments and NFC Access

Cursor Launches Native iOS App for Managing AI Coding Agents on the Go

More News

Tutorials. Help is here.

TUTORIALS