{"id":1802,"date":"2011-07-14T21:59:35","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T21:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/?p=1802"},"modified":"2011-07-14T21:59:35","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T21:59:35","slug":"location-tracking-lawsuit-results-in-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/?p=1802","title":{"rendered":"Location Tracking Lawsuit Results in Settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone remembers the Locationgate scandal that surfaced back in  April. Users went bananas when it was discovered that iPhones were  taking samples of their locations and filing them away for later access.  The first such lawsuit over the location tracking data has resulted in a  seven figure monetary settlement.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit settled for around one million KRW, which translates to approximately $950 US.<\/p>\n<p>Apple has already made the $946 payment to Mirae Law, the law firm  that successfully beat out Apple. The South Korean based group has  reportedly launched a web site for other South Koreans to get in on the  class action lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>While $950 is chump change to Apple, the implications of this  successful suit may cause problems for Steve Jobs down the road. One  successful case can lead to more successful cases, and so forth.<\/p>\n<p>While this particular payout doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seem like much, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not this  payment that has to concern Apple\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the possibility of other  payments down the line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone remembers the Locationgate scandal that surfaced back in April. Users went bananas when it was discovered that iPhones were taking samples of their locations and filing them away for later access. The first such lawsuit over the location tracking data has resulted in a seven figure monetary settlement. The lawsuit settled for around one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}