Apple sued for privacy violations

Double blow to Apple: The company has been sued in two cases of iPhone and iPad users for alleged privacy violations. In addition to Apple, some manufacturers are pilloried App.

Hamburg / New York - The accusation sounds like unrequited love: In a statement of claim against Apple describes how the iPhone users Jonathan Leno at the first introduction of the equipment purchased such a Apple phone and since then have installed many programs. At each change to the newer version, it saved the iPhone Apps and transferred it.

And now read had to Leno in the Wall Street Journal "that some applications tap personal information without his consent and forward it to ad networks or the developers of certain programs. Accordingly, great was the disappointment.

In Leno's case, the law firm KamberLaw filed the indictment. The firm is known for class action lawsuits against companies. Because of the recalled pet food and contaminated with lead paint, it has fought each of about 25 million dollars, with privacy suits against Netflix and Facebook fought KamberLaw smaller sums.

The now against Apple and four suppliers of iPhone apps (Pandora, Weather Channel, Dictonary.com, Backflip) put forward a class action calls for a ban on the transfer of data without the consent and financial compensation. Parallel to this class action law firm to another application with a similar argumentative, and some suppliers of Apple iPhone applications submitted. The lawyer for the plaintiffs Majed Nachawati speculated earlier, the cases would possibly combined.

The Wall Street Journal had reported that smartphones would "regularly and in a big way" personal information disclosed. The identification of each device is an attractive property for advertisers seeking for a reliable way to track users' online activities, says the indictment. Apple is responsible for such violations as the company review all applications on the App Store before the publication of violations of the terms of use.

In fact, under the agreement include the development of applications for iPhones and iPads with Apple that they have to comply with "all applicable privacy laws and data processing. Also, the collection of personal data solely for the purpose of the applications. Besides collecting data for "marketing purposes", which are not essential, closed the agreement expressly.

Whether the applications mentioned in the application violates these terms set by Apple and against U.S. federal and California law, will have to be clarified now.

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