Bridget Freeland reports: Despite its claims of “strong privacy protections,” Apple approved applications for iPhones and iPads that intercept personal information and track users’ habits without authorization, according to a federal class action. The class claims that apps such as Dictionary.com, Pandora, the Weather Channel and Backflip – creator of the “Paper Toss app” –…
Category: Court
TR: Police authorized to search Istanbul University students for one year
Umay Aktaş Salman and Serkan Ocak report: A local court has authorized police to conduct searches at any time of the bags, vehicles and private documents of students at Istanbul University, daily Radikal reported Tuesday. The decision, requested by the university rector’s office, is valid from Dec. 1, 2010, to Nov. 20, 2011. Eren Can,…
Apple Hit With Two Federal Lawsuits Over Tracking iPhone and iPad Users. Is Google’s Android Next?
Kashmir Hill writes: It’s always sad when two people give you the same present for Christmas, especially if it’s not a present you want. That’s the situation Apple is in this holiday season, served with two lawsuits in federal court last week, both seeking class action status, for helping advertisers create profiles of iPhone and…
KR: Law on Internet to prosecute rumormongers ‘unconstitutional’
Park Si-soo reports: A law that provided the legal grounds to indict “Minerva,” a well-known Internet commentator, for spreading “misleading” information on the Internet was ruled unconstitutional, Tuesday. The Constitutional Court’s ruling immediately brought an end to the 49-year-old law, which opposition legislators claimed had been abused to gag anti-government bloggers amid concerns about the…