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August 17, 2011 08:05 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/mxRbR0uK1lc/27000-South-Koreans-Sue-Apple
27,000 South Koreans Sue Apple
jfruhlinger writes "You may have already forgotten the iPhone location-tracking furor, but 27,000 South Koreans haven't! They (or the lawyers recruiting them) have launched a class action suit against Apple due to the 'emotional distress' suffered. The litigants are seeking around $1,000 apiece in damages. From the article: 'Apple has faced complaints and criticisms since it said in April that its iPhones were storing locations of nearby cellphone towers and Wi-Fi hot spots for up to a year. Such data can be used to create a rough map of the device owner's movements.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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