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A group of iPhone and  iPad users has demanded Apple the indictment of certain applications (apps) to channel the user personal information to third-party advertisers without user permission, according to court documents.

In the claims which seek class action, filed into a federal court in California, plaintiffs seek a ban distributing user information without permission and compensation money, according to case documents posted on scribd.com.

Together with Apple, maker of famous apps like Textplus4, Paper Toss, Weather Channel, Dictionary.com, Talking Tom Cat and Pumpkin Maker also called as a defendant in the lawsuit it.

"Not a single defendant also told the plaintiffs about their actions, and none of the defendants were the plaintiff obtained permission to do that," according to a lawsuit filed on December 23 it.

Unique Device ID, which Apple claimed as the instruments, according to a lawsuit, it has become attractive features for third-party advertisers to find ways activities "online" (in network) users of these mobile devices.

In April, Apple developers to change the agreement to ban apps send data to third parties except for the information directly necessary for the function of apps.

However, in a lawsuit that Apple allegedly not taking action to actually implementing the agreements or execute changes to its developers in a meaningful way due to criticism from a network of advertisers.

In November, up states in part the application violates the social networking company policy against the user information that is shared and has promised to fix the problem.

On 16 December, Internet Task Force on U.S. Policy Commerce Department said in a statement the department must have its own private office and develop good-voluntary behavior that can be applied for companies and advertisers data that track people on the Internet.
Source : http://id.berita.yahoo.com/