From the wired.com article:
Two Apple customers have filed a lawsuit accusing the Cupertino, California, company of committing violations of computer-fraud laws by recording location data of iPhone and iPad customers.
Vikram Ajjampur, an iPhone customer in Florida, and William Devito, a New York iPad customer, filed the suit in federal court April 22 in Tampa, Florida.
I honestly don't know how this is going to turn out, and I'm not probably the best person to make a judgement based on how often I check-in using similar services. However the point here if everything is as the plaintiff's case says, Apple lied about collecting and/or using that data for their own benefit. If it can then be proven that Apple somehow profited from this data (collecting without the users' consent)... whoa.
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| Source -> http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/04/iphone-customers-lawsuit-data/ |
Earlier post(s) -> http://www.dannyfinnegan.com/2011/04/its-one-thing-to-use-active-service.html
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Update: Apple-using Foreign Gov'ts want to know why they were being tracked too.
http://gizmodo.com/#!5795433/will-foreign-governments-get-an-answer-out-of-apple
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-25/apple-iphone-s-location-data-collection-to-be-investigated-in-south-korea.html
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