Apple sued over data collecting apps

Apple has just been dished out an invitation to court for letting their iOS apps from their app store collect data without the users’ consent. After being reputed as valiant heroes who didn’t want to provide credit card info to magazine companies who wanted them for their magazine subscriptions, it turns out that Apple has turned a blind eye for letting Apps track the behavior of their users. Apple’s App Store policy has mentioned that they will remove and reject any apps that takes users data for malicious or advertising purposes, however apps such as Paper Toss, Pandora, The Weather Channel, and Dictionary.com seem to have somehow bypassed this security check and have been giving out personal details such as age, gender, political views, and app usage data to advertisers. Hopefully it’s only a handful of apps that are doing this and not the whole catalog of free apps. It would be sad to see apps supported by ad-based revenue disappear from the app store. What do you think of the whole issue?