A lawsuit against Apple over iOS location tracking and infringed privacy has been dropped after two years, with the same judge that recently awarded the Cupertino firm $290m in damages from Samsungruling that outraged iPhone users hadn’t demonstrated any legitimate violations. The case, filed back in 2011, saw four iOS users complain that their smartphones were transmitting location data even when the feature was ostensibly turned off, with devices storing up to a year of records in an undisclosed log file.
The allegations were based on a legitimate glitch in iOS, which was found to be recording locations from iOS 4.0 onward. Two developers spotted the issue, and cooked up an app which could extract the positioning data each iPhone or iPad 3G was secretly storing.
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