Apple facing possible $25.6M location suit in Korea
Hot on the heels of Apple's $945 legal settlement to a Korean man over location logging behavior in iOS in June, a new suit in the works reportedly seeking class action aims to bring similar settlements to some 27,800 other individuals.
The Korea Herald reports that law firm Miraelaw plans to file the suit against Apple in Korea later this month, once again claiming that the iPhone violated the country's domestic privacy laws. If those listed on the suit end up with a similar payout to the one provided in June, Apple could be facing an overall settlement of 27 billion won, or around $25.6 million dollars.
The June lawsuit that resulted in the $945 legal settlement between Apple and a Korean iPhone owner centered around the iPhone's location database. In a suit filed on April 26, the man alleged that Apple violated his privacy by keeping the record, which Apple detailed in full to the world just a day later. In that note, which took the form of a Q&A on Apple's Web site, as well as press interviews with company executives, Apple maintained that said database was part of a crowd-sourced effort to help iOS devices more quickly and accurately determine their location.
