14.06.2012 00:05 Uhr, Quelle: MacNN

Judge greenlights anti-tracking lawsuit against Apple

US District Judge Lucy Koh -- based in San Jose, California -- has authorized a lawsuit accusing Apple of giving advertisers and analytics firms access to personal data whenever someone downloaded a free iOS app, says Reuters. In April of last year, researchers discovered that it was possible to track a person's location history through iOS data. Though Apple denied tracking people and eventually took steps to limit the information iOS can collect, a number of lawsuits were filed; Koh is overseeing a case combining 19 different lawsuits. Beyond location data, the current suit's complaints a

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