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Apple Pays $946 in Korean Lawsuit Over Location Data Collection, New Class Action Suit Coming
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Steve would have to work for 946 years at Apple to have that much cash in his wallet.
I hope the class action suit fails.
Why?
Because this is stupid. Apple is not to blame here. All cellphones are trackable and electronically tappable. This has been the case since at least 1996. It has nothing to do with Apple. Blame the your government for passing the legislation, and blame the horribly corrupt carriers for capitulating. Corporate America at its finest, selling out its private and innocent customers to the federal government.
Apple doesn't deserve to suffer a class action lawsuit of this sort. It has literally absolutely NOTHING to do with them.
Stop making sense here
Apple should take a short cut and give everybody in S.Korea $ 946.
Damn, didnt think of that, I wouldnt work for $1 a year. Id demand $1 a day, so I can buy a drink from the vending machine
I think it is a good thing, if no one keeps an eye on privacy, the companies will soon start exploiting said privacy.
$946 times the number of iOS users in Korea. Imagine how hard Apple and the competitors would work to ensure that the customers privacy would never be jeopardized again.
$946 times the number of iOS users in Korea. Imagine how hard Apple and the competitors would work to ensure that the customers privacy would never be jeopardized again.
What privacy was jeopardized? If you lose control of your computer which has the backup on it and you do not enable encryption on the backup and you choose to not upgrade to the version of the firmware that allows the cache to be deleted on the phone then it is "your" fault, not apple's.
Apple was not tracking anyone. In order to use a web service, you need to supply information. Their servers cannot "guess" your location.
No personal information is ever exchanged. Your location is not private data. It is a statistic about where you "phone" is at a given moment in time.
When you access this website, the server has a log with your IP address and the time it accessed the site. That is how the web works. If you don't like it then leave the internet and never use it again.
What??? Who else should be? That's like saying "how can Toyota be responsible for their cars not braking?".
Damn, didnt think of that, I wouldnt work for $1 a year. Id demand $1 a day, so I can buy a drink from the vending machine
I sure he could spare it. It's like in Family Guy "whats a quarter?"
Could they not have rounded it up to at least a grand? Jeez... This isn't even a slap on the wrist for Apple. The class action will fail. Apples lawyers will show that settlement has already be paid to this idiot, who is heading the class action, and that he is double dipping the chip! haha
Depends on what they were suing over. There were/are multiple location cache/collection actions going on:
1) On-device caching of nearby reference sites downloaded when your phone asked for a non-GPS location fix using a cell or hotspot. Basically it became an almost endless record of the general areas you had been to, and was also backed up on your iTunes host computer. In the right situation and wrong hands, this info could be harmful.
So Apple put out an OS update to drastically reduce the cache size, and to delete it if you turn off Location Services. Problem fixed.
2) The collection of nearby hotspots and cells to build up Apple's database that's referenced in (1) above.
For instance, whenever it powers up, the phone searches for nearby WiFi and cells to send up along with its GPS location. Also when you do a GPS location request. Also when the phone is searching for a network.
This nearby hotspot info collection is generally batched up and sent back to Apple every 12 hours over WiFi, using a short term allocated ID, rendering it an anonymous data collection... which is okay.
3) An access of an iAd takes your current location and turns it into a zip code. This is stored along with your device ID in order to prevent serving up the same ad to you multiple times.
Now that can be considering "tracking" you in a vague way. The data is purged every month, IIRC. However, it is a record of your movements if you move out of your zipcode a lot.
A bit silly to see Americans complaining about this, given the infamous sue culture they have themselves.
Dude, sit down before you read this, because it will probably blow your mind:
Not all Americans are the same.
In fact: not all ____s are the same.
Leave the netherlands once in a while and you'll see that I'm right
Wait a minute! I just visited www.sueapple.co.kr and they put cookies on my computer! (See Exhibit A below.) What are they doing with that information?! I want answers, but more importantly, my lawyer tells me I want money, so we're going to sue them into oblivion... or maybe enough for me to buy something at Starbucks.
Yes well, many (most?) Americans are fed up with that culture and there have been attempts at tort reform, but one political party (unfortunately we only have two viable ones) in particular seems to be blocking reform.A bit silly to see Americans complaining about this, given the infamous sue culture they have themselves.
Exactly. Apple didn't collect any data so this is nonsense. It's like being upset because your laptop saves time stamps and user names when you modify files. Your usage is being tracked on your computer. Oh no!
Oh yeah, and the wireless carriers actually do collect tracking information all the time.
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/NY-Times-Realizes-Wireless-Carriers-Track-You-113416
$1000 is a lot
A $947 refund to one person seems like a very big deal to me: it established a precedent on which future class action can be built on - that's how most class actions work actually. Multiply that by millions of users, and you get a bill in the billions (1/3 of which usually go to lawyers).
A $947 refund to one person seems like a very big deal to me: it established a precedent on which future class action can be built on - that's how most class actions work actually. Multiply that by millions of users, and you get a bill in the billions (1/3 of which usually go to lawyers).
