South Koreans Won File Class Action Suit Against Apple

A court in the southeastern city of Changwon awarded a lawyer $933 for emotional damage caused by illegal location tracking by Apple's iPhone.

After winning a lawsuit against Apple’s Korean unit and awarded one million won or $933 by a court in the southeastern city of Changwon, lawyer Kim Hyung-Suk, led an online preparations for a class suit against Apple and its South Korean unit, abs-cbn news said.

The suit involved 26, 691 people demanding the same amount for each and everyone of them“for emotional damage caused by illegal location tracking by Apple's iPhone."

Apple released in May updated software for iPhones to fix "bugs" that resulted in location data being unencrypted and stored for up to a year.

South Korea's telecoms regulator said, it would fine Apple Korea up to three million won over the disputed feature, following an investigation conducted last April, to check if the collection of location data from iPhone users violated privacy rules

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