Apple: Applications in the dock

Class action lawsuit was filed against Apple claiming iPhone iPad transfer customers'personal information to third parties
Less than two weeks after the publication of investigative Wall - Wall Street Journal, found that many mobile applications on transferring personal information of users - is served in a class action lawsuit against Apple, that it allows this action.
The suit was filed in court this week in San Jose, California by a citizen named Jonathan Lew. Argued that the iPhone iPad encoded in advertising networks that enables downloaded applications, to know what frequency they are used and what duration of use at a time. "Some applications known advertising networks information, including user location, age, gender, income, national origin, sexual preference and political positions, " the suit claims, among other things, the eight applications Pandora, Paper Toss, The Weather Channel.
Another suit charges Apple instruments include a unique identification number that can not be blocked by the user. Although Apple claims it checks each application and approve it only after ensuring that is not broadcasting information without authorization - that's not what happens. Apple has not yet officially responded to the issue.

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