U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh earlier this week dismissed a lawsuit against Apple which alleged that the the company had illegally tracked and transmitted user location data. The suit was initially filed in 2011 by a group of plaintiffs who argued that Apple was in violation of its own privacy policy and that they, as a result, over-paid for their iPhones.
Specifically, the plaintiffs argued that in collecting and transmitting location data without user consent, Apple diminished the overall value of their devices by degrading its "battery, bandwidth, and storage resources."
In dismissing the lawsui
