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To: Road Walker who wrote (4098)4/25/2011 4:52:54 PM
From: pyslent  Read Replies (2) of 32692
 
"What exact laws did Apple violate, and exactly how?"

Precedence alone indicates that Apple has every right to collect their users' location data to improve services. Google does it, Skyhook does it, and last year, Apple was investigated by Congress for saying they do it and eventually came up smelling like roses. If there's an issue here, it's a breach in Apple's obligation to protect their users' anonymity. Hard to argue that the data is confidential and anonymized when it's sitting on your phone or PC in an unencrypted file. But I see this as a civil issue, not a criminal one.
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