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Here Miicrosoft is being sued.

By Dan Levine

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Microsoft allegedly tracks the location of its mobile customers even after users request that tracking software be turned off, according to a new lawsuit.

The proposed class action, filed in a Seattle federal court on Wednesday, says Microsoft intentionally designed camera software on the Windows Phone 7 operating system to ignore customer requests that they not be tracked.

A Microsoft representative could not immediately be reached for comment.

The lawsuit comes after concerns surfaced earlier this year that Apple’s iPhones collected location data and stored it for up to a year, even when location software was supposedly turned off. Apple issued a patch to fix the problem.

However, the revelation prompted renewed scrutiny of the nexus between location and privacy. At a hearing in May, U.S. lawmakers accused the tech industry of exploiting location data for marketing purposes — a potentially multibillion-dollar industry — without getting proper consent from millions of Americans.

The lawsuit against Microsoft cites a letter the company sent to Congress, in which Microsoft said it only collects geolocation data with the express consent of the user.

“Microsoft’s representations to Congress were false,” the lawsuit says.

The litigation, brought on behalf of a Windows Phone 7 user, claims Microsoft transmits data — including approximate latitude and longitude coordinates of the user’s device — while the camera application is activated. It seeks an injunction and punitive damages, among other remedies.

The case in U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington is Rebecca Cousineau, individually on her own behalf and on behalf of all others similarly situated v. Microsoft Corp., 11-cv-1438.

(Reporting by Dan Levine, editing by Bernard Orr)
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Or course if the republicans and the bought and paid for five of the Supreme Court, STARK, have their way they will make the corporations immune from suit or criminal penalties.

Terri

Please ask Anonz to come to South Kordofan. The same man, Sudan’s president Omar al-Bashir, that bombed and murdered so many in Darfur is now doing the same thing here in my home of South Kordofan, Sudan.

Since Anonz gave his care of us to the UN, the UN does nothing about his attacks. He is bombing almost daily. My entire village and many thousands of men, women and children in the area have been forced to get out so he can bring in the chinese and arabs.

You are our one big hope. The media has ignored us and the UN has put most of their efforts in keeping the bombings and killings by al-Bashir out of the news.

We know that certain UN officials are taking huge bribes to look the other way. I think Anonz was deceived into believing that he was doing what was best for us. But we need him back.

Please put this video on your blog Michelle. savedarfur.org/pages/darfur-deja-vu-bashirs-killing-machine-in-the-nuba-mountains

Amnesty International put it together to get the torture that is occurring out. But the UN and the government of Sudan is doing everything it can to keep what they are doing to us silent.

Please help