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#Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Apple in US Over Location Tracking Issue Apple has been tracking your moves and invading your privacy. Bloomberg was first to report today that two ipad/iphone users have filed a class action lawsuit accusing Apple of invasion of privacy and computer fraud, and of secretly recording movements of iphone and ipad users.##Vikram Ajjampur, an iphone user in Florida, and William Devito, a New york ipad customer, sued April 22 in federal court in Tampa, Florida, seeking a judges order barring the alleged data collection. The complaint cited a report last week by two computer programmers claiming that Apples ios4 operating system is logging latitude-longitude coordinates along with the time a spot is visited#The programmers said Apple devices are collecting about a years worth of location data. Apple hasnt commented on the matter since the April 20 report was released. The case is Ajjampur v. Apple Inc. 11-cv-00895, U s. District court, Middle District of Florida (Tampa. Heres a copy of the lawsuit (PDF), via this post by Brian Chen at Wireds Gadget Lab. CNET has a roundup of posts on the ios location tracking freakout. Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorati e

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