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27,000 South Koreans Sue Apple

Posted by samzenpus on from the one-bad-apple dept.

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.'"

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  1. Possibly distressing in some countries by Moses48 · · Score: 1, Interesting

    While I doubt it really cost all 27k of them any emotional distress, it could possibly cause dissidents in other countries some distress. Think activists in China. Although china already has complete control behind the great firewall of china.

  2. Shoulda bought a Samsung by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Isn't it weird that Korea being home to Samsung and LG is where this lawsuit is happening?
    Take that, apple.