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Title: California judge dismisses Apple Music data lawsuit
Post by: HCK on November 26, 2019, 04:05:21 pm
California judge dismisses Apple Music data lawsuit

Never to be raised again.

What you need to know


A California judge has granted Apple's motion to have an iTunes and Apple Music lawsuit dismissed.
The suit alleged that Apple broke the law by exposing user's personal listening information to third parties.
The plaintiffs failed to file an amended complaint on the matter, resulting in the dismissal.


A lawsuit filed against Apple over claims it "sold and otherwise exposed" iTunes and Apple Music user listening data to third parties has been dismissed, after the plaintiff in the case failed to file an amended complaint on the matter.

As reported by AppleInsider, the case was initially raised by three complainants in May of this year. Three individuals, Leigh Wheaton, Jill Paul, and Trevor Paul claimed that Apple had allowed app makers to access iTunes and Apple Music library and listening metadata contained in user "tokens":


  Pertaining to iOS developers, plaintiffs claim Apple allowed app makers access to library and listening...

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