Following a recent victory against Apple over claims that iPhone location data collection violated user privacy, a South Korean law firm has now launched a class-action lawsuit over the same location data issues. The firm is asking for 1 million won for each of the roughly 27,000 plaintiffs, which could put Apple on the hook for about US$25 million.
In April of this year, security researchers Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden revealed via an easy-to-use Mac app that iPhones kept an unusually large cache of what appeared to be GPS coordinates of the iPhone over a period of almost one year. Though there was no direct way to access the data from an iPhone itself without hacking the device, unencrypted backups saved by iTunes could be easily accessed by a small program the pair wrote to map the cached location data.
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