Almost 2 weeks ago I wrote one article in which we draw your attention to several iOS applications that send confidential data to advertising companies without our consent. It seems that that report made by the Wall Street Journal made a lot of people think, and Apple was act sued on December 23 by a person who wants compensation because his data were sent without his consent to different advertising companies. The trial will bring to the courtroom not only representatives of the Apple company, but also representatives of the companies that made the applications Paper toss, Pandora, The Weather Channel, Dictionari.com plus others of other applications mentioned in the summons.
This is only the first step for the person who introduced the complaint and I hope that this initiative will convince as many people as possible to join him in giving compensation to the Apple company for allowing the acceptance of this kind of applications in the AppStore. Each iDevice has a unique identification code, or UDID, which was sent to these companies along with data about each user's habits, information that helped advertisers target their ads as usefully as possible.
Of course, Apple defends itself by saying that it has checked all the applications very carefully and none of them offer such information, but we probably all know that the reality is different. Probably everything will be resolved outside the courtroom in an agreement that will bring a lot of money to those who joined this complaint.
Dec. 28 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc., maker of the iPhone and iPad, was accused in a lawsuit of allowing applications for those devices to transmit users' personal information to advertising networks without customers' consent.
The complaint, which seeks class action, or group, status, was filed on Dec. 23 in federal court in San Jose, California. The suit claims Cupertino, California-based Apple's iPhones and iPads are encoded with identifying devices that allow advertising networks to track what applications users download, how frequently they're used and for how long.
