Apple facing a class action lawsuit?

Hello Clare,

I just found your blog and scanned through it to read a few articles. Really like it and think you have very interesting posts. One I especially enjoyed was the Facebook privacy issue plus another involving CNNMoney.com. You have a different approach to online issues that is fun reading and seeing videos on your page.

One thing I noticed that is a key in many of your posts is privacy. Recently Apple was slapped with a privacy lawsuit with their phones and iPads which was the story from CyberSmokeBlog that grabbed my attention. Here’s a video that I think you’d like to see that shows many perspectives on the issue: bit.ly/flYCjK.



I'd love to stay in touch. Take Care

Daniel

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Dear Daniel:

Thank you for taking the time to write with the kind words.

We believe blogs have and are playing a very important role covering stories missed or under reported by the mainstream media. CyberSmokeBlog has a very catholic taste in the sense of always looking for a broad range of subjects that will be of interest to a wide audience. The subject of internet privacy seems to be getting increasing coverage as people begin to realize how pervasive its abuse has become.

The Apple lawsuit referenced in the video you included was launched by a man in California last week who alleges the company is allowing its mobile apps for iPhone and iPads to send personal information to advergtising netwworks without the consent of users. Apparently the Plaintiff is trying to have the litigation classified as a class action suit which if granted by the courts could potentially expand it to include thousands of consumers.

If you're interested in ditigal law we highly recommend you contact Harvard University's Berkman Centre For Law & Society, as well as, San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation to be placed on their electronic mailing lists - it's free. Both are on the cutting edge of digital law - hardly a week goes by we don't receive updates from them.

We encourage readers to visit newsy.com and hope you'll give us a heads up about the interesting projects on which you're working.

Sincerely,
Clare L. Pieuk

P. S. BTW, you might be interested in the recent letter we just posted from the EFF to Andrew Lack Sony's CEO.