Apple removes several VPN apps from Apple’s app store in China that help users evade China’s Great Firewall of internet censorship.
Incident Tag: Privacy Invasion
Google to pay record $22.5m fine to FTC over Safari tracking
Google to pay $22.5m fine for tracking users of Apple’s iPhone, iPad and Mac computers by circumventing privacy protections on the Safari web browser for several months at the end of 2011 and into 2012.
Google faces legal action over alleged secret iPhone tracking
Group of UK users sue Google, alleging that it misused private information, breached confidence and breached the 1998 Data Protection Act.
Koreans sue Apple
Group of nearly 27,000 South Koreans sues Apple for £15.8million over what they claim are privacy violations from the collection of iPhone user location information. Case later dropped.