About 27,000 South Koreans have in a joint lawsuit Apple sued for collecting location data through their iPhones. The Koreans demands per person a compensation of around 650 euros.
The iPhone owners have gathered in the last weeks of July through a specially created website and pay each about 10 euro per person to take part in the lawsuit, writes the Korea Times. If the users have the lawsuit win, they get every 650 euro. That would in total amount to a compensation of around 17.5 million euros.
The users are complaining to Apple for collecting location data from users via iPhone and iPad. The users believe that their privacy has been violated. Apple collects location data for a future traffic service. The collection of location information was last spring topic of discussion.
The joint lawsuit, a class action suit, follows on the judgment in a process earlier this summer, when a lawyer compensation assigned to, because Apple with the collection of location data, their privacy would have been violated.
The number of Koreans that join the lawsuit is against. The law firm that the website was started, had counted on at least 100,000 signups. There are about three million iPhones and iPads sold in South Korea.