27,000 South Koreans sue Apple over iPhone privacy concerns

By on Aug 17, 2011 at 10:00 AM
Legal August 17, 2011

27,000 people have filed a class-action lawsuit against Apple in South Korea over concerns Apple collected private location data, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. The group is seeking 1 million won per person in damages, or about $930 each and just over $25 million total. In early August, the Korean Communications Commission fined Apple 3 million won ($2,829) following the “Locationgate” scandal that occurred earlier this year. Apple has stood by its claims that the location-tracking was the result of a bug that was fixed in a software update. The iPhone maker was also sued in the United States by two consumers in Florida and by one man in Puerto Rico. Apple paid South Korean lawyer Kim Hyung-suk $945 this past May after he filed a lawsuit against the company, and that is the only other recorded pay-out at this point regarding the iOS location tracking bug.

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  • Anonymous

    Typical lying cheating copying stealing Koreans. Always looking for a way to scam someone.  true story™©®

    • Rudy

      Sounds exactly like America too

      • http://twitter.com/IamGregSmith Greg Smith

        Guess who’s not getting the iPhone this year?

    • Anonymous

      I got an iPad 2 32-GB for $21.68 and my girlfriend loves her Panasonic Lumix GF 1 Camera that we got for $ 38.76 there arriving tomorrow by UPS. I will never pay such expensive retail prices in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 40 inch LED TV to my boss for $ 657 which only cost me $ 62.81 . Here is the site we use to get it al from, http://to.ly/aXqd

    • Applesucksfatties

      Those same 27,000 South Koreans are also suing Scroat for having to read the crap that he posts on iBGR.  

    • Drew

      …said the spokesman from the company who has doctored photos and had an injunction lifted and thrown out of court because of it.

  • http://twitter.com/mistercarter7 Mike Gonzalez

    cheap ass koreans, they trying to get money for NOTHING. i bet they want that money to get the next iPhone for free

    • Crunch Giff

      Stupid cheating beaners stealing americans tax payers by sneaking over the border, dropping anchor babies, collecting walfare, flooding hospitals, going to school for free lunch, urinating in the streets and turning america into mexico. So whose worst?

      • http://twitter.com/mistercarter7 Mike Gonzalez

        i dont live in the US anyway… so i dont care LOL

  • Bringit

    It’s the massage with a happy ending app.

  • Gara56

    Why work when it’s easier to sue someone? I’m sure Samsung is happy about it.

    • Anonymous

      I bet Samsung paid for the legal fees for these people

      • Lechero

        This is easy case, when judge asks “raise your hand if youre still using an iphone”? and everyone get out, the remaining two people, you get $100 each.

    • Anonymous

      So are all the Fandroids!

  • http://www.droiddoes.com/ Norm

    Big win for DROID and Google, the privacy masters!

    • http://www.jphotog.com Hrunga Zmuda

      Hahahahahahaha! Privacy masters? The company that monetizes people’s privacy? That’s a good one!

      Androids actually did track people. Apple’s products tracked locations of cellphone towers, from as far away as more than 100 miles! Just because someone won a lawsuit means little when it comes to guilt or innocence. 

      • http://profiles.google.com/jshurak Jeff Shurak

        you just got successfully trolled.  

      • http://www.jphotog.com Hrunga Zmuda

        Doh! I knew I should have had my coffee first!

  • Steve Lee

    Every Korean whos using Iphone should sue the apple and see how that goes.

  • Anonymous

    Yes! The end of Apple!

    • http://twitter.com/iMarky_Marc Marc Jarvis

      yea ok….Apple has 25 M to wipe their ass with

    • fishkid13

      haaaaaaahaaaa, no

  • Anonymous

    One person WINS on this bogus B.S. and so now EVERYONE is in on the game!!!!  Show me one person that was actually affected!!!  The Judge was just a idiot, like most are.

    For one thing Apple wasn’t sent ANYTHING AT ALL!!!  It also wasn’t YOUR location, but the Cell Towers it picked up as you used your phone.  All Cell phones do this!!!  The only thing Apple did wrong was Not Encrypt the Data!!!  That and storing more Days of info then it needed.  Both issues were fixed months ago!!!   The only way someone else is going to get that data back then was to steal your phone and rip that file off of it!!!  Did that happen to any of those People?  What does it matter?!?!?!  Your so Important that if someone GOT that Data they’ll know your General Area’s your around and then do what exactly?!?!?!

    All these people see is a way to get free money!!!  

  • Anonymous

    I just got an iPhone4 for $ 25. 54 and my girlfriend loves her Dell laptop that we got for $ 36.47 there arriving tomorrow by UPS I will never pay such expensive retail prices in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 42 inch LED TV to my boss for $ 645 which only cost me $ 62.78 to buy.We are getting all this stuff from, GrabРenny.com

  • http://profiles.google.com/jshurak Jeff Shurak

    lolz

  • Samuelmcalpin

    Fuck em. Broke ass tiny penis having don’t want any from America pussy South koreans. They can suck a whole gang of STD infested dicks! ALL OF THEM!!!!

  • Anonymous

    LOL Are these the employees of Samsung and HTC told by their bosses to come together and sue Apple?

  • Anonymous

    Apple come of that load of money you have been siting on a pay up once this is over!!!!!!!!!! 

    You can’t treat the people wrong who assembles your phones!!!

  • Anonymous

    Apple suing everyone and fanboys are happy and a (D&P) Now Apple getting sued your crying. Whats that all about.

  • Anonymous

    At least the Koreans gets their money from suing APPLE for tracking software in their Iphone.

  • Mac

    Stupid little cock Asians deserve a days wages.  Give them 50 cents and mini sized condom.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_G7BADNGHA72GR77IJI6YNHB5AU Gilda Maddox

    I just paíd $22.85 for an íPad 2-64GB and my girlfriend loves her her Canon EOS Rebel Camera that we got for $38.78 there arriving tomorrow by UPS. I will never pay such expensive retail prices in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 40 inch LED TV to my boss for $625 which only cost me $62.81 to buy. Here is the website we use to get it all from, CentHúb.çom

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