Apple Sued Over iPhone Location Logging

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Posted April 25, 2011 at 3:37pm by iClarified

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.

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Bob - April 27, 2011 at 12:03am

Yes, they are collecting it...

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Bob - April 27, 2011 at 12:01am

http://i.imgur.com/7cGIN.png Yes, they are collecting it...

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Bob - April 27, 2011 at 12:04am

My bad, I was redditing at the same time

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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.

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rbs2000 - April 25, 2011 at 4:22pm

Where is my stolen Iphone 4 then ? if they could track iphones where is my iphone4 then ? They can collect every movements of the iphones and ipads users but they can't locate my proprety.Bullshit..

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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.

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

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

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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.

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Young - April 25, 2011 at 6:26pm

Wooo, I like apple pie !!

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