Class Action Lawsuits

posted by on Apr 27

iPhones and 3G-enables iPads may be revealing your location to Apple, and there’s nothing you can do to stop it, according to a recently filed Apple location tacking lawsuit.  Even if users disable the GPS functionality, iPhones and iPads will still report your location via Apples tracking system.  That’s an invasion of privacy, according to two men, one  in Florida and the other in New York, whose Apple class action lawsuit was filed April 22, 2011.

iPhones and iPads with the iOS4, the operating system used in those products for about a year now, will track your location and send it to Apple twice a day, according to the Apple location tracking lawsuit.  Users can disable the reporting functionality of the tracking system, which means the location data won’t be sent to Apple.  However, disturbing to consumers is that the products will continue to collect your location data, even if it’s not sent to Apple.  Then, anyone with access to your iPhone or iPad and a computer can download that data.

About one third to one half of iPhone users in the U.S. could be part of this Apple location tracking class action lawsuit.  Even more plaintiffs could be involved it one source is correct in saying the hidden database file that collects your location information has been around since 2007, rather than in just the past year.

Computer fraud and consumer fraud laws have been violated, according to lawyers for the plaintiffs in the Apple location tracking lawsuit.

posted by on Apr 25

Kids and Apple are together taking advantage of parents’ credit cards after a loophole was discovered.  The loophole allows further purchases on a credit card after a game is purchased, allowing kids to rack up charges on their parents credit cards. The Apple class action lawsuit is brought on behalf of parents whose credit cards saw mystery charges to Apple, for amount up to $200, in one case.

The window of opportunity, which is the main bone of contention in the Apple class action lawsuit,  lasts about fifteen minutes and the in-app purchases include things like more super powers for a game character, or to unlock bigger, stronger weapons.  The purchases fall under something called Game Currency.  It’s basically a purchase of virtual goods, whether it be Smurfberries, Fish Bucks, or weapons in the Zombie Cafe game.

After downloading a free Apple game, virtual goods are available to purchase while playing the game.  And during the first fifteen minutes of the game, there is no password required in order to charge these virtual goods to Mom’s or Dad’s credit card.  The Apple class action lawsuit wants that changed and indeed, Apple in app purchases now require that password.

posted by on Jul 11

For those who purchased an iphone and signed up for AT&T service, listen up.  If you’ve been wondering, like others, whether  it’s  a two year contract or a five year contract, you’ll be interested in the news today that a judge in California has granted a three-year old lawsuit the status of class action.  Anyone who purchased an iphone from Apple and who then signed up for AT&T as their cell phone service carrier, may have been allegedly mislead to believe they were signing up for a two year contract.  However, according to an exclusivity contract between Apple and AT&T, the contract term for these iphone customers was and is five years.  Hence, the Apple, AT&T and iPhone Class Action Lawsuit.

The case started back in 2007, when USA Today broke the story that service contracts were not what they appeared to be on the surface.  This July, three years later, it’s finally become a class action lawsuit.  Anyone who purchased their iphone between June 29, 2007 and now can become part of the class action.