Apple Sued Over Applications Giving Information to Advertisers [telecom]

Apple Sued Over Applications Giving Information to Advertisers

By Joel Rosenblatt December 28, 2010, 12:28 PM EST

Dec. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc., making 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.

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