Wednesday, December 29, 2010

iPhone and iPad users sue Apple over privacy issues

(Reuters) - A group of iPhone and iPad users have sued Apple alleging that certain applications were passing personal user information to third-party advertisers without consent, a court filing showed.


In the lawsuit seeking class action, filed in a federal court in California, the complainants sought a ban on passing of user information without consent and monetary compensation, according to the case document posted on scribd.com.

Along with Apple, maker of popular apps such as Textplus4, Paper Toss, Weather Channel, Dictionary.com, Talking Tom Cat and Pumpkin Maker were also named co-defendants in the lawsuit.
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"My first job. I was in house at a fur company. This old pro copywriter, Greek, named Teddy. Teddy told me the most important idea in advertising is "new". It creates an itch. You simply put your product in there as a kind of calamine lotion. He also talked about a deeper bond with the product; nostalgia. It's delicate, but potent. Teddy told me that in Greek, nostalgia literally means the pain from an old wound. It's a twinge in your heart, far more powerful than memory alone. This device isn't a space ship. It's a time machine. It goes backwards and forwards. It takes us to a place where we ache to go again. It's not called The Wheel", it's called "The Carousel". It lets us travel the way a child travels; around and around and back home again to a place where we know we are loved."

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