27,000 South Koreans Sue Apple

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You may have already forgotten the iPhone location-tracking furor (http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/04/26/1758220/iPhone-Tracking-Ruckus-Ongoing), but 27,000 South Koreans haven't! They (or the lawyers recruiting them) have launched a class action suit against Apple (http://www.itworld.com/mobile-wireless/194657/south-korea-class-action-suit-against-apple-now-has-27000-plaintiffs) due to the 'emotional distress' suffered. The litigants are seeking around $1,000 apiece in damages. From the article: 'Apple has faced complaints and criticisms since it said in April that its iPhones were storing locations of nearby cellphone towers and Wi-Fi hot spots for up to a year. Such data can be used tocreate a rough map of the device owner's movements (http://news.yahoo.com/skoreans-sue-apple-over-iphone-user-information-043449140.html).'"

http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/08/17/1853257/27000-South-Koreans-Sue-Apple