Apple Sued Over iPhone & iPad Privacy Breach Following Wall Street Journal Report [Lawsuit Against Apple & Prominent App Developers Alleges Privacy Breach]

Posted on TFTS by Staff Writer on Wednesday, 29. December 2010 under: Computer/Console Gaming

That Wall Street Journal report we were telling you about? Well, unless your only worry was about Bejeweled, the jury’s still out on that one, right? Yes, that may very well be the case. Okay, we’ll stop with the puns now. The fact is, Apple are getting sued on account of allowing applications like Pandora, Paper Toss, The Weather Channel and Dictionary.com to send information including location, age, gender, income, ethnicity, sexual orientation and political views to advertisers.

Jonathan Lalo, from Los Angeles is also suing the developers behind those apps, and is being represented by Scott A. Kamber and Avi Kreitenberg of New York firm KamberLaw LLC. Lalo v. Apple, 10-5878 is the case number you’d be looking for if you wanted to look into it for some mysterious reason. At the very least this should bring the App Store privacy matter under closer scrutiny and settle it once and for all, because Apple and the developers certainly aren’t all that forthcoming on the issue.

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