Apple Accused of Selling ITunes Customers' Listening Data
- Rhode Island, Michigan customers say disclosure is dangerous
- Some data cited as available for sale at 14 cents per customer
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Apple Inc. was sued by customers who claim the company is unlawfully disclosing and selling information about people’s iTunes purchases as well as their personal data, contrary to the company’s promise in advertising that “What happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone.”
Three iTunes customers from Rhode Island and Michigan sued Friday in federal court in San Francisco seeking to represent hundreds of thousands of residents of their home states who allegedly had their personal listening information disclosed without their consent.