After many years, an old problem of Apple and other companies have come to an end. And it is that applications Instagram, Twitter, Foursquare, Kik, Gowalla, Foodspotting, Yelp and Path have reached an agreement with the company from Cupertino, who gave 5.3 million dollars to meet the demands of many users by a former feature of the iPhone.
Between 2009 and 2012 iPhone had a feature called “Find Friends” that he broke in a flagrant manner the privacy of the user. In this sense, above mentioned eight companies made use of this feature to collect data from the personal diary of the users and not specified at any time for what was going to be used all this private information. A judge said they had to have it explained better.
The number of affected users amounts to more than 7 million people who use os these applications on the iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch between 2009 and 2012 and, in addition, had activated the function Find Friends.
You can now check if you are among the beneficiaries of those 5.3 million dollars. So if you can see it from here and the money you would enter through a check at Amazon.
