How Are iPhone and Android Users Fighting Back Over Location-Sharing?
Forget emails to Steve Jobs and blog ranting, iPhone and Android users are taking their privacy complaints straight to the courtroom. Two Michigan women have sued Google over location data collected by Android devices, just one week after fellow iPhone-maker Apple was named in a lawsuit citing privacy violations with its own data collection practices.
iPhones were revealed last month to be tracking and storing data on users’ locations, while Google’s Android phones were quickly after shown to be storing users’ location and data in a very similar way, both recording the users’ name, location and a phone identifier.
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