On: Apple is now a privacy-as-a-service company

[pmontra]

In other news "Apple’s privacy reputation at risk with new iTunes class-action lawsuit"

> The plaintiffs allege that a third party can purchase a list of iTunes customers based on different demographic requirements, like a list of unmarried people who have a taste for a particular genre of music:

> The lawsuit further alleges that the third-party beneficiaries of this listening data match it to other sensitive personal information gathered about iTunes users from various sources, and then resell that information on the open market.

[1] https://thenextweb.com/business/2019/05/27/apples-privacy-re...

[r00fus → pmontra]

Their main claim revolves around "iTunes & Pandora data" based on a 3rd party aggregator's claims.

Interesting that they mention Pandora - is that how the data got exfiltrated/aggregated?

All the claims in the suit mention "publicly available information" but the references given don't present actual harm to the class.

It'd be very unlikely to me that this class action goes anywhere.

[graeme → pmontra]

Do they have any evidence? The prices listed are 13 cents per itunes user.

That seems an awfully low price for apple to throw away its privacy reputation.