Remember when people were screaming when they discovered that Apple was keeping tabs on their locations via some unprotrected datebase file on their new iPhones? Now, over in Korea, that invasive little practice where no one was asked their permission is going to get expensive.
Korea has launched a class-action suit where Apple is being accused of violating what’s perceived as domestic laws of privacy in how their iPhone was collecting the data.
If the lawsuit takes hold, Apple could be paying up to $25million in damages.
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Ya know…
Right now as we use desk and laptop computers, our systems, despite being our property, are riddled with tracking files and such. One of the most basic forms of tracking is the website cookie. From these cookies, and other aspects of your system, that’s how Amazon.com knows what you have previously shopped for. Or if you go to a new website you’ve never been to before, that’s how they know what to point you at… from cookies from other websites.
I do feel it’s invasive and yet cookies are a necessary evil in some instances. It’s also a PIA to run software that masks or restricts cookies, but alas, that’s what I do. I only allow cookies from a select set of websites I visit. If a website requires that I need to allow them to drop cookies on my computer, well, bite me. 99% of most sites I visit don’t need that to be a requirement and I find a different site to visit.
But most users are unaware. They turn on their computers and take the default settings and go.
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